Bowral fe
_ INK SLINGS.
—Poor Prof. Seymour, of Yale. He
probably didn’t know he was building
a Glass—House.
——1It’s small wonder Ban Johnson
is sick. It would make any baseball
man sick to be compelled to go up
against Judge Landis.
——They may pull off the secret
vote in the Senate this time but op-
position to secrecy is increasing and
before long it will be out of order.
——1It is said that one William S.
Vare, of Pennsylvania, watched the
Senate proceedings with absorbed in-
terest while the case of Smith, of Illi-
nois, was pending.
—Now we know why Queen Marie
80 suddenly cut her visit to us short
and hurried home. She got the tip
that her own brat was intriguing to
do to her just what Keneshaw Moun-
tain Landis has done to Ban John-
son.
—=Since that meeting of base-ball
magnates in Chicago, on Saturday, we
have had to revise our notion of what
an irresistible body does when it meets
an immovable force. We always
thought they called it a “draw,” but
since Ban Johnson “took the air” we
have lost a bit of faith in the irresisti-
ble bedy.
—The admission of Brother Dor-
worth into the Holy-of-Holies of the
Fisher administration is another evi-
dence of the fact that a new boss is
in the making for Centre county Re-
publicanism. He is one of the five
members the Governor has selected
from his Cabinet as his most intimate
advisers. It is a signal honor for Mr.
Dorworth, but it’s an awful pill for
some of the home folks whom we shall
not mention at this time.
—If it is true that sixty five per cent
of the soft coal now being marketed
is coming from non-union mines the
“bogy” of a general strike on April 1,
that is being held up before the con-
sumer, is nearly all “bogy.” It seems
‘to us that the union miner himseif
should be more alarmed about it than
the consumer of soft coal. We write
with only a meager knowledge of con-
ditions in the Central Pennsylvania
fields when we say that many opera-
tions here are at a standstill because
of the constant squabbling over union
rates and all the while the non union
fields have been busy getting and hold-
ing the business that once was ours.
—It must have been an awful blow
to Frank A. Vanderlip when he went
down to Washington to tell President
Wilson that the Federal Reserve sys-
tem, then in the making, was all
wrong, to be refused even @h audience
‘with the President. To a president
of the National City such an attitude
would be incomprehensible. Yet the
Federal Reserve system was put
through a Democratic Congress by a
Democratic President, in spite of the
condemnation of the American Bank-
ers Association and, today, who is the
banker to stand up and say that it was
not the greatest piece of financial leg-
islation ever enacted by this or any
other country?
—We have been riding that “rela-
tive” idea rather hard of late. It
came into our mind that night we were
trying to make something out of a
local clergyman’s distress over the
failure of the bally-hoo for “an old
fashioned church sociable”. We have
always been that way. When we get
an idea it seems to dominate every-
thing until another comes along to
edge it out. Nothing having come up
to this moment we hark back to last
Thursday night, when, as you will
recall, we had been put out of business
by ammonia fumes from a busted re-
frigeration plant next door. Driven
to the street for air just long enough
to miss the mails and make everybody
about the shop mad—which we were
particularly nothing else but. Well it
was some where near eight-thirty
when we finally saw our way to a bite
of supper. The streets were icy and
a hill was between us and what might
be in the warming oven of the kitchen
stove. What we craved right then
was a cigarette. A cigarette more
than anything else in the world and
there were but three pennies in the
jeans, just twelve short of the price
of our favorite brand. That was our
financial status on the night of Janu-
ary 20, in this year of Coolidge pros-
perity 1927, when Leander Green
breezed in to “borrow (?) a quarter.”
Poor old Leander. Proprietor of one
and often a very potential vote when
“the old blind horse” made councilmen
and school directors in our beloved
West ward of Bellefonte. Leander’s
present address is the borough home.
He is comfortable, warm and happy
there and doesn’t need to give a darn
when the “seven o'clock whistle
blows.” His idea was incipiently
Einsteinish. It was relativity. He
thought us rich because we happened
to be the boss of a four storied busi-
ness enterprise on High street and
couldn’t conceive the problem we were
wrestling with to make up the twelve
cents needful to buy a pack of cigar-
* ettes to help us up the icy homeward
hill. Leander wanted the quarter to
hire a taxi to haul him to the poor
house. We wanted twelve cents to
buy a cigarette to dope our jaded
nerves out of thought of where the
taxes to keep Leander’s home going
are to come from. God, how full the
world is of and how happy the
Leanders ought to be. Almost we
envy them.
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72.
VOL.
The Governor’s Inaugural Address.
Governor Fisher strikes a popular
note in his inaugural message in his
declaration that he is opposed to new
taxes, “unless justified by emergen-
cies.” For some years the favorite in-
door sport of our Legislators has been
searching for new subjects of taxa-
BELLE
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
FONTE, PA.. JANUARY 28. 1927.
No Violation of State Rights.
| All the Senators who supported the
| claim of Smith, of Illinois, to a seat States Senate, on Thursday, refused to i
in the body based their argument on
that provision of the constitution
which guarantees two Senators to each
| State. It would be hard to imagine
| anything more absurd. Senator Reed,
Smith and Vare Condemned.
By a vote of 48 to 33 the United
allow Frank L. Smith, of Illinois, to
take the oath of office as Senator
designate under appointment by Gov-
{ ernor Small, to fill a vacancy. The
| objection to Mr. Smith was that he
tion. There has been no incentive to | of Pennsylvania, quoted Article 5 of | had corruptly used an excessive slush
economy of administration for the rea-
son that money could be found to meet
any requirement. If the Governor
means to literally cut out all new
propositions for taxation, he will be
rendering valuable service to the
State. But if he means simply to ful-
fill an agreement made before the
election that there will be no tax levy
on manufacturing corporations it will
work disappointment.
The Governor’s inaugural address
had the merit of brevity and it had
other good points. He promises to im-
prove the budget system so as to make
it capable of even better results than
Governor Pinchot obtained from it.
His intentions with respect to the
highways are admirably expressed in
the statement that “construction of
the State highway system must be |
kept moving.” Within the last four
years great results have been achieved.
Pennsylvania is now well up toward
the lead in road construction and it
should be kept there. The construc-
tion and maintenance of such high-
ways cost money, but they are worth
all they cost and the people are will-
ing to pay the price.
It goes without saying that Penn-
sylvania will not permit deterioration
in the standard of the public schools
and Governor Fisher's assurance that
he is in sympathy with the best mod-
ern methods in education is gratify-
ing. It is equally encouraging to
know that he is earnestly in favor of
ballot reform legislation. Let us hope
that he will press this reform during
the present session of the Legislature,
while the influence of expectation is
working full time. It is also gratify-
ing to learn that the Governor is in
favor of law enforcement. The Leg-
islature may give him the support in
that direction which it refused his
predecessor in office; Governor Pin-
chot. 2 ye
at
——Senator Shipstead wants to
know something about Nicaragua
loans and come to think about it that
is a pertinent subject.
{
The Mexican Muddle Clearing.
On Friday the Senate committee on
Foreign Relations adopted by a vote |
the resolution !
of thirteen to three,
previcusly introduced by Senator
Robinson, of Arkansas. This resolu-
tion provided for arbitration of the oil
and land controversy in Mexico. The
President had expressed a willingness
to adopt that form of adjustment and
Secretary Kellogg had said he “would
welcome an expression from the Sen-
ate on the subject.” But neither of
them seems pleased with the consum-
mation of the plan. After the action
of the Senate committee the President
declared that “the American people
do not understand the questions at is-
sue. Small collateral issues have con-
fused the public mind and obscured
the greater one.”
The main question appears to have
been certain concessions in oil proper-
ties made years ago to certain Amer-
ican adventurers. In the course of a
redrafting of the land laws of Mexico
the legality of some of these contracts
has become involved in doubt and the
Mexican authorities indicated a pur-
pose to revoke them when the time for
putting the new law in force arrived.
The administration seems to have
adopted the policy of protecting the
concessionaires, right or wrong. The
Robinson resolution provides for the
arbitration of the claims guaranteeing
to all concerned full and complete jus-
tice. It will avert war, which seemed
imminent only a few weeks ago, with-
out humiliating a weak nation.
Of course the Nicaragua affair was
a jesture to frighten the timid and the
Soviet invasion a smoke screen. With
the clearing away of the Mexican
muddle the confusion with respect to
Nicaragua will blow away. What
reason the President and Secretary of
State had for presenting it to public
view may never be known. There is no
way to make the President “show
cause.” But whatever the purpose
was it has failed, and left those re-
sponsible for it humiliated before the
country and the world as no other
President has been in the history of
the country. - The American people
are not as stupid as Mr. Coolidge
imagines. They understand the ques-
tion in dispute as well as he does.
————— ge
——1It may be necessary to send a
few American marines to settle the
exciting trouble in China.
mee ett ei
——XKing Ferdinand, of Rumania,
is about to abdicate and at that he
doesn’t give up much.
| the constitution which declares that
i “no State, without its consent, shall be
| deprived of its equal suffrage in the
| Senate.” But when any State sends
lan unfit man it clearly gives the other
. States the right to assume it has ecn-
sented to abridgment of its suffrage.
The right to reject an applicant for
| membership has always been recog-
| nized, and the right of expulsion has
never been disputed.
Mr. Smith, of Illinois, acquired his
claim to the seat by the most brazen
expenditure of money. A large part
of the slush fund employed to compass
his election was contributed by public
utility corporations, of which he had
| control as president of the Public Ser-
vice board. This fact marked him as
a type of man morally delinquent.
Placing men like him in posts of honor
i set a bad example to the electorate
and work injury to the public service.
Mr. Vare, of Pennsylvania, occupies
precisely the same position. Therefore
if Smith, of Illinois, and Vare, of
Pennsylvania, are refused seats in the
Senate it will be for the reason that
Illinois and Pennsylvania have relin-
quished their right to equal suffrage.
The southern Senators who hold
that each State has the sovereign
right to choose whomever it pleases
for Senator, and that challenging that
right is attacking the doctrine of State
Rights, are equally wrong. The most
ardent advocate of State Rights would
hardly claim that Pennsylvania or Illi-
the Senate. So long as States exercise
their right to choose by picking out fit
men who have acquired the public
favor in a proper way, there ought to
be no objection to the choice, and
there probably never will be. But
when men unfit to associate with the
sitting Senators and whose admission
would be a < reproach alike to the
| Senate and the country their rejection
! violates no State Rights.
——The Duke of York is having a
‘fine time in Jamaica, which indicates
that the Prince of Wales is not the
| only popular figure in British Royal-
ty.
! lp s——
Ballot Frauds in Pittsburgh.
After a rather long drawn out legal
, battle two Pittsburgh election officers
, were convicted of making a false and
| fraudulent return of the election held
{on November 2, 1926, and called for
| sentence on Monday morning. They,
| with other members of the election
| board, had been charged with con-
| spiracy but acquitted on that charge.
{ For making a false return of the vote
‘they were each sentenced to pay a
fine of “$100.00 and costs and paroled
for one year.” Whether the parole
| gave them a year in which to pay the
| fine is not stated in the report of the
i court proceedings. It may be assumed
| that the victims will not be “handled
rough,” however.
In handing this mild rebuke to the
| prisoners whe had made false returns
| of a vote the Judge expressed the hope
; that “it would be a lesson to them and
members of election hoards through-
out the State.” What sort of a lesson
does the court expect to draw from it?
It might easily be pointed to as evi-
dence that the making of false returns
of elections is a trifling offense. If
they had stolen a loaf of bread a jail
sentence might have followed. But
simply stealing a man’s seat in the
General Assembly gets them a fine of
$100.00 and a parole. whatever that
means.
favor, anyway. Of course votes of a
community were stolen but the people
don’t count much in Pittsburgh elec-
tions.
Governor Pinchot appraised ballot
stealing as the most serious crime
against the public.
Debauching the ballot is certainly
striking at the fountain of popular
government. But sentences of a fine
that is probably paid by the party ma- |
chine will not go far toward correct-
ing the evil. When the courts come to
imposing penalties commensurate with
the gravity of the offense those mental
cripples and moral degenerates who
serve the party machine in that way
will draw from the sentence of the
court a lesson that will carry a deter-
rent influence.
nate eps
——The Smithsonian Institute is
trying to find out when the use of fire
for heating purposes was begun while
the rest of us are trying to find out
why the price of coal is so high.
—————— i ———————————
——Ban Johnson saves his face but
at the expense of his health.
nois has a right to send a burglar to
Probably the loser wasn‘t in |
Other statesmen :
have classed it in the rank of treason. |
(fund to procure his nomination for
the term beginning on the 4th of
| March, next. It was not charged that
"his appointment for the short term
"had been corruptly obtained. But a
majority of the Senators held that in
the corruption in the primary election
in the summer of last year there was
involved such a measure of moral tur-
pitude as to disqualify him from mem-
, bership of the Senate.
' The case of William S. Vare, of
Pennsylvania, which will come up for
consideration upon the assembling of
the New Congress on the 4th of
| March, is precisely like that of Mr.
Smith. According to sworn evidence
| taken before the Slush Fund commit-
i tee of the Senate some $800,000 were
| spent in behalf of Vare. In the case
| of Smith objection was raised that a
‘large part of his fund was contributed
| by the Public Service corporations and
that Smith was president of the Pub-
| lic Service board. But it is known
| that a large portion of the Vare slush
‘fund was levied off municipal em-
ployees and bootleggers of Philadel-
| phia. The law forbids the collection
|of campaign funds from one and
morals forbid the other.
We sincerely believe that if all the
votes cast for William B. Wilson had
been counted for him, and only the
legal votes cast for Vare had been
counted for him, the certificate of
election would have gone to Mr. Wil-
son and it would have been a regular
certificate that would have gone to
{ Washington. It may not be possible
to develop the facts, and though Vare
will not be seated, it may devolve on
the Governor to fill the vacancy. But
some good will have come out of the
political Nazareth, for it will admon-
ish rich men to refrain from attempts
fo bys seats in the United States Sen-
ate. - Senate will not stand for
plutoerats who are without qualifica-
tion other than money.
| —In 1925 fire losses in Pennsyl-
vania aggregated $30,173,327, accord-
ing to figures just released by the na-
tional Board of Fire Underwriters.
It was an increase of 14 per cent. over
Ithe losses from the same cause in
1924. Pennsylvania is third among
| the forty-eight States in this respect.
' The leading orignating cause of the
{fires is given as “matches and smok-
'ing.” Possibly if every community
had such capable fire departments as
| we can boast there would not be such
| appalling losses.
| —_———
——The refusal of the United States
| Senate to confirm the appointment of
| the Hon. Cyrus E. Woods as a member
| of the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion is disappointing to his many
. Centre county friends, but will not les-
| sen their admiration for him one bit.
i It wasn’t the Cyrus Woods we know
' who was rejected. It was a Cyrus
Woods whom a lot of Senators don’t
| know. Incidentally, Mr. Woods is now
i spoken of as a possibility on the Penn-
, Sylvania Public Service Commission.
|
| It isn’t much wonder that there
| are three times as many musicians as
‘there are dentists. Most every one
i prefers the sound of a musical instru-
ment, no matter how poorly it is play-
: ed, to the buzz of a dentists’s drill.
i ———— i ———————
——China appears to be “election-
eerin’ for a ‘lickin’ again and the
Boxer rebellion is still within the
; memory of middle-aged men and
i women.
i
| ——M. Millerand, ex-President of
| France, needn’t feel so bad because of
his defeat for Senator. Our own
Eddie Beidleman has also been “elimi-
nated.”
! They are doing surgical opera-
tions to music in a certain New York
‘hospital and probably the appendix
i will be removed to jazz time.
——The collection of State proc-
lamations by the Congressional li-
brary will take up room and may be
useful in other ways.
The discovery of rich ores in
the Apennine mountains will be a
great boon to Italy and incidentally a
help to Mussolini.
——-A Reading man died the other
day while pitching quoits in a church
cellar. Maybe that isn’t a good place
to pitch quoits.
I ———— pc —————
——Next Tuesday will be ground-
hog day. He'll decide the weather to
follow. :
NO. 4.
The Sovereignty of Phantoms.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
With the recognition that there nev-
: er was a people in history more jeal-
ious of their sovereignty than Ameri-
| cans, the significance of the fact that
most Pennsylvanians simply laugh at
the efforts of the few who would strain
Constitutional interpretation to the
point of making it appear that this
State would lose its sovereignty if
“Boss” Vare of Philadelphia is not
given a seat in the Senate on his pur-
ported plurality padded with the
| “votes” of dead men and other phan-
toms will scarcely be lost.
The obvious fact is that Pennsyl-
vanians do not take seriously the at-
tempt to draw a picture of Constitu-
tionality favorable to Vare One of
the significant demonstrations of this
was the laugh that was raised over
the State by some who voted for Vare
under the fetish of “party regularity”
as well as by those who were openly
against him when Governor Pinchot
gave him that “trick certificate” of
election; a laugh by those who ordin-
arily are against Pinchot as well as
those who profess a liking for him.
It was a reminder that the majority
sentiment of the State is against
Vare; that some who voted for him
simply for party reasons would be as
tickled as many of his avowed oppon-
ents to see him lose in the end.
The picture of Constitutionality that
most Pennsylvanians draw does not
have to do with the splitting of legal
hairs over the authority of the Senate
as the judge of the election and quali-
ifications of its members, but of the
sanctity that should be around the bal-
lot box. Where any political machine
attempts to make a farce of the bal-
lot box it may expect only derisive
laughter when its seeks to use the
very Constitution it has violated as a
shield between itself and retribution.
It takes clean hands to make an effec-
tive appeal to the Constitution.
What the people of Pennsylvania
and the country generally want to
know is the extent to which Vare’s
claim to election rests upon the “sov-
ereignty” of the dead and other phan-
toms with which the voting. lists of
| Philadelphia and sections of some oth-
er cities of the State were padded, and
also the extent to which Wilson was
denied an honest count of the votes
cast for him.
The picture of Vareism slicks
with the great majority ©
vanians is the ugly one presented of
it in the primary campaign by some
of the eminent Republicans of the
State it is now looking to save it.
Those who now attempt to picture
Vare as a martyr of an attempt to mis-
construe the Constitution make them-
selves look worse than ridiculous.
The Vare machine itself, with its vot-
ing of dead men and other phantoms,
is the only menace to the Constitution
in this case.
: —————
Being Governor of Pennsylvania.
By Melville H. James in the Harrisburg
Telegraph.
One of the press associatios the
other day referred somewhat proudly
to the fact that Pennsylvania pays its
Governor $18,000. At the risk of be-
ing called a liar this column remarks
that the Governor of Pennsylvania
earns $18,000 before he takes office,
in the annoyance and perplexities to
which he is subjected by the ladies
and gentlemen who remind him every
two or three minutes that they elected
him. The first year he earns $95,000
were his compensation on the piece-
work basis. The second and third
years he is entitled to twice that sum.
The fourth year $18,000 is about
right. In other words, the people of
Pennsylvania squander $72,000 on a
Governor in four years, but he goes
through an experience the cash value
of which is $321,000. Which he does
not get. The honor! you say. Quite
empty. Did the Governor of Pennsyl-
vania possess the concentrated virtues
of the twelve apostles, the political
acumen of Penrose, the Camerons and
Quay, the charity of the Salvation
Army, the forbearance of the Man of
Galilee, the foresight of Merlin, the
assurance of the German Emperor, the
lineage of the King of England, the
knowledge of a five-foot-shelf-of-
books—did he possess all these qualifi-
cations! he would still retire in four
years with the unqualified consent and
approval of the majority of the elec-
torate.
Where the Big Money Goes.
From the Philadelphia Record.
An interesting case has been begun
before the Supreme Court of New
York, in which minority stockholders
of a certain large corporation have
brought action to prevent the presi-
dent and vice president of that organi-
zation receiving the increase in salary
granted to both executives by the
board of directors. The two men are
now drawing annual salaries of $125,-
000 respectively. Their pay before the
increase was $80,000 and $40,000 rc-
spectively; and that, say these minor-
ity stockholders who have taken the
case to Court, is plenty. It will be
the business of the Court to pass upon
the contention of the complainants,
and it will be interesting if the Court
will go into the matter deep enough to
determine how the other employees
of the corporation fared in the matter
of increased pay. We who are the
plain public, and who get no such
fabulous pay, are always intensely
curious to’ know how those of the
princely wage get that way, and why ?
ennsyl- |
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Plans of the State of Pennsylvania for
a bridge across the west branch of the
Susquehanna river near Hyner, were ap-
proved on Tuesday at the War Department,
at Washington.
——Carl Sherman, after being missing
from bis home at Kinzua for several days,
was found frozen to death along the public
road a short distance from the pumphouse
on an oil lease where he was employed.
He was last seen alive when taken in a car
by friends to the lease, on his way to work.
—Twenty minutes after he was jailed
following a hearing in domestic relations
court, John Sura, thirty, Blackmans Patch,
Luzerne county, died suddenly. A hem-
orrhage, was responsible, officials reported,
Sura was taken before Judge Coughlin and
charged by his wife with neglect and ex-
cessive drinking.
—Charging her husband attacked and
threatened to kill her during an argument
in their home on Sunday, Mrs. Elizabeth
Shultz, of Lancaster, preferred charges of
assault and battery, with intent to kill,
and nonsupport against him. She col-
lapsed in Alderman John Burkhart's office
after signing the complaint.
—A mine cave directly under the garage
of Mrs. Arna Yeworski, 567 Lee street, Ply-
mouth, swallowed a roadster last Friday.
The cavein occurred in the Ross workings
of the Washington colliery, Lehigh and
Wilkes-Barre Coal company. No trace can
be found of the car as the cave has been
partly filled with dirt and surface water.
—Harrisburg pelice are holding five
negroes as suspects following an attack on
Miss Ruth Smiley, Lemoyne, a school
teacher, in that city last Friday. Miss
Smiley was walking to the Foose school
building when she was attacked. Her
screams attracted John Gunderman, the
Janitor, who went to her rescue. She is
confined to her home suffering from shock
and nervousness.
—James A. Battles and Miss Bess Cam-
by, Pittsburgh election officers, convicted
last week of making a false return of the
vote in a legislative contest at the May
primary, were each fined $100 and costs
and paroled for one year in criminal court
on Monday. Two women clerks of the
election board were acquitted of a similar
charge and all four defendants were found
not guilty of conspiracy.
—Advertisements for bids for the Federal
building at Lewistown, of two stories and
reinforced concrete construction, costing
$108,000, have been ordered by the super-
vising architect of the Treasury at Wash-
ington, D. C., according to a telegram from
Representative Edward M. Beers, of the
Eighteenth district. The first floor of the
building will be devoted to postoffice work
and the second floor will be given over to
farm and other meetings and activities.
—An explosion wrecked the home and
store of Alex Duijan on North Shaver
street. Mount Union, last Friday at 12.25
o'clock, scattering the wreckage over an
area of 150 yards. The house was occupied
by Mr. and Mrs. Dauijan and their five
small children, all of whom escaped ser-
ious injury. Chief of Police Creamer went
to the scene shortly after the explosion and
an investigation shows that a heavy charge
of dynamite had been placed under the
steps leading to the store.
—The entire plant of the Baldwin loco-
motive works, Tociited at Broad ana Spring
Garden streets, near the heart of Philadel-
phia, for more than half a century, will
have been moved to Eddystone, a Delaware
county suburb, by the middle of next sum-
mer. In moving to the new site, which
covers 600 acres of ground, Samuel M.
Vauclain, president, said the plant would
have “plenty of room for expansion” and
that the concern was “determined to go
after the world’s business.”
—The dead, charred body of Mrs. Nellie
Smyser Ripple, 35, wife of Raymond Rip-
ple, lies at her home in Orbisonia, where
she took her own life from saturating her
clothing and body with kerosene oil, and
applied matches. She died several hours
after committing the deed. It is said that
Mrs. Ripple brooded over alleged mistreat-
ment of herself and her three children.
She had been a saleslady in the Shapiro
department store, at Orbisonia, before her
marriage. The oldest of her three sur-
viving children, is a son, aged fourteen.
—Siston Miller, of Orwigsburg, recently
discovered an ancient Bible in the loft of
his home, for which he was offered $8,000
to-day. The offer was refused, as the only
other similar Bible recently was sold in
England for $10,000. The books were
printed in England in 1635, and when the
other copy was sold it was said it was the
only one in existence. Experts pronounced
the loeal Bible genuine beyond doubt. It
has been in possession of the Miller family
for more than a century and it was not
known until this week that it had any
value.
—Steve Wingo, 40, a miner, was shot and
killed by a gang of robbers who invaded
his home near Uniontown, on Saturday
night. The robbers, thre» in number, first
confronted Mrs. Wingo, on the first floor
of the house, and while one covered her
with a revolver, the others went to the
second floor where Wingo was shot after
a scuffle. Money hidden on the second
floor was taken by the robbers who es-
caped in an automobile. County authori-
ties hope to trace the trio through buttons
ripped from their clothing during the fight
with Wingo. :
—George S. Pash, aged 46, of Braddock,
died on Sunday in the Braddock General
hospital from blood poisoning resulting
from a bite on his left hand inflicted by a
man he was trying to aid. Last Menday
Bash found a man so under the influence
of liquor that he stumbled. He extended
a hand to help him and the intoxicated
man bit it so hard that blood oozed from
the wound. The hand began to swell the
next day and a physiciafi found infection
was spreading through the system and
beinz unable to check the flow of poison
the man died as the result.
—Tear gas bombs subdued Milton Ger-
hart, of Black Horse, Lancaster county,
after his proficiency with a shotgun and
revolver had scared officers of the Adams-
town police force, who, in desperation,
summoned Chief of Police McCould, of
Ephrata, to capture the man. Gerhart, ac-
cording to officers, imagined he was a big-
game hunter after consuming quantities of
home-made wine. Grabbing a shotgun, he
chased his family from the house, and
practiced marksmanship with the family’s
egg supply as the targets. Police say he
also pulverized lanps and other objects in
the home. He was fined $2 at a magis-
trate’s hearing on a charge of disorderly
conduct. ~~