sr—
INK SLINGS.
—Babe Ruth has demanded one
hundred thousand dollars as the price
of his services to the New York Amer-
ican base ball club next season. Babe’s
fling in the movies might not have
uncovered a potential screen star, but
it evidently did give him a new idea
of salary demands.
—The Supreme Court of the United
‘States has put the seal of condemna-
tion on Edward L. Doheny and Albert
B. Fall, former Secretary of the
Interior. They are the gentlemen who
tried to get away with the govern-
ment’s oil reserve and didn’t get their
tracks covered well enough.
——1TIt may be noticed that the
tariff mongers are enthusiastic in ap-
plauding what the President said
about the Farm Relief bill, and if the
same language had been directed to-
ward the tariff law, as it might have
been, the farmers would have been
quite as enthusiastic in praise.
—To the contest for county offices
that is to be staged next fall will now
‘have to be added another. Governor
Fisher will appoint a successor to the
late Judge Keller, but as he will serve
only until January 1, 1928, a new
Judge will have to be elected in No-
vember. It is reasonably certain that
whoever is appointed will be a candi-
date for election for the regular term.
—A lot of fuss is being made over
the fact that Fannie Ward, at the age
of sixty-one, is still successfully play-
ing juvenile parts on the stage. Her
latest characterization is that of a
child of seven. Nothing so remarkable
in that. “Lotta” played child parts
wonderfully well long after she had
passed sixty-one. The surprising
feature of Fannie Ward’s act is the
fact that she admits that she is that
sold.
—Haven’t we told you, time and
again, that we haven’t lost faith in or
hope of American youth. Beneath the
veneer of cosmetics and the trouser
legs that resemble the hoop-skirts of
the Sixties the girls and the boys are
just as true as were their grand-fath-
ers and grand-mothers. Frivolous,
flippant and jazzy as some appear to
be the great mass of them are just
sterling Americans in the making.
They want to know and see and they
venture often to the danger line, but
rarely go over. At Lagrange, Illinois,
last week, the High school scholars
turned out and put over a campaign
to prevent Sunday movies in the city.
—What ever else might be said of
Mussolini his newest edict is one that
should command the respect and ad-
miration of the entire world. He has
created a new type of nobility in Italy.
~ Ancestry or birth has nothing to do
with it. It is “the nobility of good
conduc.” And its honors are to be
conferred on rich and poor alike. With
us good conduct is expected from
‘everyone, just as every person is as-
sumed to be honest, but, unfortunate-
ly, such assumption is too frequently
wrong. Impropriety and dishonesty
are so common that it has come to
such a pass that candidates are often
elected to office who claim nothing
else by way of qualification than that
they are honest. Mussolini's plan to
force social recognition of people of
good conduct, however lowly they may
be, is a long step toward saving them
from trying to “climb” at the sacri-
fice of virtue and honesty.
—Wednesday morning we opened 2
letter bearing a Somerset, Pa., post-
mark and were reading the message
it contained. Part of it was as fol-
lows: “for another year’s subscrip-
tion for my paper dear old letter from
home, which brings its joys and its
sorrows as the years pass.” We had
not completed reading all of the card
when the telephone rang to tell us
that Judge Keller had been stricken.
That is one of the kind of sorrows that
we presume Mrs. Swartz referred to
that the Watchman brings weekly to
its readers. Often, we think, there are
more of the sorrows than joys for our
older readers. Their generation is
fast drawing to its close and so many
of those with whom they spent the
happy, care free days of youth—the
* days of friendships that memory adds
lustre to in its golden years—have
already reached the end of the journe)
and there are few left. Indeed tha
record of their passing is one of sor-
TOW.
—Writing from Scranton H. D. R.
admonishes us that there is a pos-
sibility of a paragraph we published
last week coming back to haunt us.
it was the one in reference to the ar-
rest of A. Mitchell Palmer, in Florida,
for driving a car with a 1926 license
tag on it. H. D. R. advises us to “va-
member the Republican papers on
Vare.” This, of course, refers to
what many Republican papers said
about Vare in the primary campaign
and their subsequent ridiculous at-
tempts to eat their words. To impress
the idea properly on us he enclosed a
double column article from The Scran-
tonian of February 27, which inti-
_ mates that A. Mitchell has been in re-
tirement for the purpese of emerging
at the psychological moment as a can-
didate for President—Gosh, what a sit-
uation there would be, if Mitch came
galloping out of the stable as a dark
horse and won the race for the nomi-
nation. We'd support him even if
we died of indigestion from eating all
we have said about him, and we've
said a lot, but never once have we
charged him with not being a Demo-
crat.
Demir
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 72." ‘BELLEFONTE, PA. MARCH 4. 1
NO. 9.
Governor's Fraud Bills.
If the plans of Governor Fisher on |
the subject of ballot reform is fully |
expressed in the four bills introduced |
into the General Assembly, last week,
the cause of political morality in
Pennsylvania will not be improved by
his interference. There is consider- |
able merit in each of his bills and
taken together, if rigidly enforced, |
might achieve fine results. But every-
thing of value to the cause was ex-
pressed in other bills quite as well,
and the danger is that because of the
Governor’s sponsorship of these par-
ticular measures, other reforms of
equal if not greater merit will be side-
tracked. The four measures will not
guarantee honest elections and fair
returns of the vote, however strictly
enforced.
The Governor’s bill making manda-
tory the opening of the ballot boxes is
fine, but there was a better one pend-
ing on the same subject. The Gov-
ernor’s bill restricting assistance to
voters might be helpful but there is
an infinitely better one pending. For
example, the Governor’s bill restricts
assistance to “voters who are physical-
ly unable to mark the ballot and those
unable te read.” Of course this throws
the assistance open to the hundreds of
thousands of voters in Philadelphia,
of whom city treasury Mackey de-
clared under oath, vote as they are
told to vote by the ward boss. The
other and better bill on the calepdar
covering that phase would exclude
them from assistance.
The Governor’s bill on the subject
of primary expenses is hardly in line
with reform thought. It would “limit
the expenditures of a candidate to ten
cents for each of the highest number
of votes for any office in the preced-
ing election.” It would seem as if
that were still bidding on the favor.
But it might be worth a trial. His
remedy for the evil of disseminating
information is better because he cuts
it out altogether while his proposed
treatment of an equally obnoxious
fault, the employment of watchers, is
positively bad. He would limit the pay
for such election day pests instead of
limiting the. mumber. The class of
men and womén concerned will take
any amount given them. :
If the evil of vote pollution were
less securely entrenched in the centers
of population in Pennsylvania, the
four measures of legislation sponsored
by the Governor might serve to eradi-
cate it. The opening of the ballot
boxes, for example, would reveal the
fraud but in the absence of severe
punishment it would not stop or even
check the evil. The Governor has
himself put a fair appraisement on the
crime but makes no provision for ade-
quate punishment. One of the other
pending bills provides for a prison
sentence ranging up to three years.
That is not too severe a penalty and
if the Governor’s bill for the opening
of the boxes incorporated the three
year jail sentence it would be better.
The bill relating to the assistance of
voters is practically destroyed by the
provision which allows assistance to
any voter who cannot read. A voter
physically unable to mark his ballot
may be as amply qualified to vote in-
telligently as his neighbors. But the
menace of assistance doesn’t come
from such voters. It lies in the
groups of illiterates in the centers of
population who have no understanding
of our system of government and dis-
pose of their votes in bulk to the ma-
chine politicians of the district. A
provision of law denying assistance to
voters who cannot read might be un-
just to a very few, but even those de-
prived of the ballot on that account
would be recompensed by the good re-
sult.
The four bills sponsored by the
Governor, supplemented by the ex-
cellent measures sponsored by Senator
Harris, now pending in the Senate,
would afford a fabric of law that
would be well-nigh impervious to
fraud. Therefore, if the Governor's
purpose is to advance his measures
in conjunction with the Harris bills,
which have the approval of the Pin-
chot Committee of Seventy-six, he will
be able to contribute much toward
the purification of elections in this
State. If his purpose is, on the other
hand, to divert support from the Har-
ris bills on the ground that his own
bills serve the purpose better, he will
work harm rather than good and set
the cause of ballot reform back.
————p
—Anyway the local merchants who
were visited by the “Coal-oil Johnny”
who was in town shopping, on Satur-
day, had a grand time for a few
moments. He made what otherwise
appeared as a dull day take on a very
rosy hue until they discovered that
his supposed riches were merely brain-
storm products.
—It was necessary to send
General Smedley Darlington Butler to
§ Lai
make China behave.
' snernl '
« Darlington Haile.
Veto of the Farm Bill.
President Coolidge had so frequent-
ly and with such emphasis declared op-
position to the McNary-Haugen farm
relief bill that he could not have ap-
proved it without stultification. But
the veto of the measure is not to be
taken as conclusive proof that it ex-
pressed vicious legislation. It had the
earnest support of many able and pa-
triotic Senators and Representatives
in Congress and was opposed with
equal zeal by nearly as many. There
was little question of courage in the
veto in view of these facts. It in-
vited the opposition of the agricul-
tural section of the country and com-
manded the approval of another ele-
ment of the electorate of probably
greater force in the political equation.
In his veto message the President
declares the measure is “vicious, un-
sound and indefensible,” and that it
confers no benefits upon the farmer.
He declares it would “work a direct
and disastrous hardship to all non-
agricultural elements of the nation,
blast the law of supply and demand
that fixes prices.” These are grave
charges against an Act of Congress
and he adds to them the prediction
that the law would increase the cost of
living and “reeks with unconstitution-
al principles.” This last statement is
on the authority of Attorney General
Sargent, who holds that Congress has
no right to curtail the President’s ap-
pointing power and that price fixing
has never been approved by the
courts.
There are two sides to this as well
as other questions. The farmers of
the West have been striving for years
to get legislation that would serve
them as the tariff legislation serves
the manufacturing interests. Possibly
some of the things alleged by the
President against the McNary-Haugen
bill are true, but they would be
equally true if charged against the
tariff law, which is now looting the
public to the tune of billions annually
in order to guarantee to the manu-
facturers abnormal profits. In vetoing
the farm relief bill Mr. Coolidge will
have the cordial as well as substantial
support of the beneficiaries of the {
tariff legislation and no doubt he has
estimated the value of each group.
The United States will co-oper-
ate with the League of Nations next
month “in drawing up a convention on
the manufacture of arms and muni-
tions.” ‘This fact indicates that we
are getting closer to the League.
Commeotions in Washington.
Quite a commotion was raised in
official circles in Washington, the
other day, because it was discovered
that Senator Borah, chairman of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions, had been indulging in some
correspondence with the President of
Mexico. Evidently the Senator had
some doubts as to the accuracy of
statements made by Secretary of
State Kellogg in relation to the oil
and other concessions in Mexico held
by Americans. Instead of “going
around the bush” in the customary
diplomatic way, Senator Borah wrote
a letter of inquiry to the President of
Mexico and thus confirmed his sus-
picions that Kellogg had grossly mis-
represented the facts.
All this occurred more than a month
ago but did not reach the attention of
President Coolidge until Monday of
this week. Of course it excited his
indignation. There is a tradition that
all correspondence between this and
other governments and between indi-
vidual Americans and foreign govern-
ments must be carried on by the State
Department. It seems there is a law,
enacted during the Washington admin-
istration, making correspondence be-
tween Americans and officials of other
nationalities an offense against the
law, and President Coolidge has not
only cited that law but threatens to
issue a proclamation denouncing the
act of the Idaho Senator.
Reduced to the last analysis it may
be assumed that the President is not
so greatly outraged because of the
violation of the ancient law as he is
chagrined because the Borah corres-
pondence revealed the fact that the
Scretary of State, probably with the
assent of the President, had been
caught in a willful and somewhat mis-
chievous falsehood. Mr. Kellogg had
stated to the Senate committee that
only a small fraction of the American
concessionnaires had agreed to the
provisions of the Mexico constitution
and the information obtained by
Borah indicated that a vast majority
of them had done so. The corres-
pondence may have averted war with
Mexico.
————p me a————————
The great success of Ann
Nichols with “Abie’s Irish Rose,” is |
gratifying, but it is to be hoped it
will not “turn the heads” of a lot of
girls who may imagine they have
“something equally good.”
RT AL de BON BL
ray we wl
Ee
Harry Keller, Christian Gentleman.
Another and most lamentable trag-
edy has fallen in our midst. We cail
it tragedy, for what else can the pass-
ing of one so eminently useful in life
as was the Hon. Harry Keller be.
To be cut down just as he had
entered into the duties of the highest
office that the people of his native
county could confer upon him, just
when he had reached the goal that is
the ambition of every man of his
profession and to have the cup of hap-
piness snatched from him in the
twinkling of an eye is indeed inscruta-
ible.. So much so that we might
ries live to reincarnate the lives of
worthy mortals and make them eternal
in immortality.
Judge Keller was a man of deep and
abiding convictions. He brought a
true heart to his work and from the
i days when he entered with the zest of
| youth into the sports of his compan-
{ions until the moment he adjourned
his last court we have known none
who have more consistently exempli-
fied them. In all things he charted
his course with a well balanced, analy-
tical and God fearing mind and kept it
against every temptation.
By nature he was a serious man,
vet. he loved the leaven of occasional
contact with the more frivolous, ebul-
lient types of life. On the teaching
of devoutly christian parents he built
a charter so strong that he entered,
fearless of taint, into any companion-
ship and it is probably among those
who havent seen with his eye that the
nobility of his life has sown seeds for
its greatest harvest.
In a span of nearly half a century
of conscious knowiedge of men and
with more than usual oppc tunity to
appraise those with whom we have
been at times associated we know of
thoughts of what we ought to be
when the call comes. :
To our mind Harry Keller is not
dead. On Wednesday he merely
wrapped the drapery of his judicial
ermine about him and laid down to
pleasant dreams. .
Ged, give" the world Vision to
get the lesson of such a christian’s
life.
i ————————
——Cloture doesn’t seem to be
popular in the Senate. On Saturday
it was defeated twice and in one case,
that of the Boulder dam, it deserved
to win.
tt —p fy = ———rs——
Move to Defeat Exposure.
The opposition to the motion of
Senator Reed, of Missouri, that the
powers of the Slush Fund committee
be continued during the recess of
Congress reveals the scheme by which
William S. Vare and others from just
punishment for their political crimes.
During the period since the investiga-
tion was begun Senator Reed has been
industrious as well as efficient. But
he early discovered that it would be
impossible to complete the task with-
in the life of the Sixty-ninth Congress
and asked for the impounding of the
ballot boxes of Philadelphia and Pitts-
burgh. But upon a subsequent motion
that the boxes be opened and canvass-
ed, the opposition developed.
Of course the ballot boxes of Phila-
delphia and Pittsburgh in storage in
Washington will not help the process
of tracing fraud. Without the author-
ity of the Senate the Slush Fund com-
mittee will not have a right to open
the boxes and count the votes. In the
absence of this right the returns of the
election in Pittsburgh and Philadel
phia, as made by the election boards,
will stand. The power of the Slush
Fund committee dies with the expira-
tion of the Congress that created it
and unless it is extended by a vote of
the Senate all the time consumed in
the investigation is wasted and all the
valuable work accomplished is lost.
That is a sacrifice which the Republi-
can machine asks to save crooks.
Senator Dave Reed, of Pennsylva-
nia, the friend of William 8. Vare, who
i said before the nomination last May
| that the election of Vare to the Senate
| would “be disastrous to the industries
; of Pennsylvania,” led up to the pres-
jent situation by aquiescing in and
| agreeing to everything until a situa-
tion arose in which his opposition
might prove fatal. Then instead of
| acquiescing he objected and summon-
ed to his help all the administration
' supporters in the Senate. The issue
i will be determined within a day or
two and upon the vote of the Senate
stands the chance of punishment of
Cunningham and his crooked com-
i rades. It also reveals the insincerity
jo Republican professions of reform.
i ET eS pen——
| ——To an outsider it looks as if
the Senate has been monkeying with
Tom Cunningham, but he will probably
get all that is coming to him in the
en
FO in
nEban, but he will wrakan?
rebel at death were it not that memo- |
none who have more fully fulfilled our ! years more Pennsylvania widows and
the Republican majority hopes to save !
; An Appeal for a Larger Mothers’ As-
: sistance Fund.
A bill providing for a State appro-
i priation of $4,000,000 to the Mothers’
{ Assistance Fund for the biennium
11927-1929 has been introduced in the
House of Representatives, at Harris-
. burg, by Mrs. Lillie H. Pitts, of Phila-
| delphia. The bill, which is designated
{as H-722, was referred to the House
| committee on Appropriations.
| In urging full legislative support of
i the proposed $4,000,000 State appro-
‘ priation, Stanley Bright, of Reading,
‘ chairman of the State-wide Mothers’
| Assistance Campaign committee, said:
: “The Governor’s budget for 1927-29
‘ Tecommends an appropriation of $2,-
000,000 for the Mothers’ Assistance
i Fund, an increase of $2 0,000 over the
!last biennium. The | udget recom-
| mendation says, “As this amount is
matched by the counties, accepting
i the provisions of the Acts of the As.
| sembly, $4,000,000 will be available
| for this purpose.”
; “During the last few months wide
publicity has been given throughout
the State to the fact that the Mothers’
| Assistance Fund is in urgent need of
ja State appropriation of $4,000,000 for
11927-29. This appropriation would,
: of course, be matehed by an equal sum
{from the counties, making a total of
$8,000,000 for the biennium, or $4,000,-
, 000 2 year, ’ 0
“The proposed State approp tation
(of $2,000,000, even ie approptia by
| the counties, would not begin to clear
{up the waiting list, whose very exis-
tence is a violation of the good faith
of the State. The appropriation would
permit the giving of aid to only about
one-fifth of the waiting list. In other
words, about 480 of the 2400 waiting
mothers would receive grants. More
than 1900 mothers with over 6000
children would still wait. The appro-
priation would still be too small to
grant them the aid which the State
‘has pledged in the Mothers’ Assistance
Fund Act of 1913. For at least two
Uist children wold seek in vain the
aid to which they are legally en-
titled.” y sgally) en
To give this in figures understand-
able to the people of Centre county
it might be added that the Mothers’
dren under sixteen years of age. On
{ the waiting list are 20 mothers with
{60 children. Therefore the smaller
{ appropriation would mean that only 4
i mothers and 12 children additional
| would receive grants, while 16 mothers
| and 48 children would not be included
{in the distribution of aid to which they
{ have looked forward for several years.
Because of this condition, locally,
the Mothers’ Assistance Fund commit-
I tee of Centre county appeals to all
those interested in the success of
House bill 722 to write or telegraph
| the Governor, Senator Scott and Rep-
| resentative Holmes asking for their
i favor for the bill.
Mrs. John S. Walker, Mrs. W. F.
Reynolds and Miss Mary H. Linn ap-
peared before the Kiwanis club, at
their regular luncheon on Tuesday,
in support of the bill.
rn lp emse——
How to Get into Military Training
Camps,
Sufficient funds have been appro-
priated by Congress at its current ses-
sion to provide food, clothing, trans-
portation to and from camps, training,
ete., of 4,300 young men from Penn-
sylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Dis.
trict of Columbia at citizens’ military
training camps this coming summer.
Announcement to this effect has been
made by Major General Douglas Maec-
Arthur, of Baltimore, Maryland.
Since the original encampment in
1921, this annual period of one
month’s physical training and eiti-
zenship instruction has become in-
creasingly popular. Applications to
attend these encampments invariably
exceed the number provided for and
are gradually increasing
development of new features. It has
therefore become necessary to assign
population quotas to the various coun-
ties, and to follow the “first come,
first served” rule in approval of ap-
plications. A large number of appli-
cations to attend this year’s encamp-
ments have already been received. The
entire quota for Centre county is
twenty two.
In past years, Camp Meade, Mary-
land, has been one of the largest
camps for this purpose but will be
supplanted this year by other mili-
tary stations in the Third Corps area,
to be announced in the near future.
Young men desiring to attend camp
this vear should make early applica-
tion to the local representative of the
Military Training Camps association,
or to The C. M. T. C. officer, Head-
quarters Third Corps area, Baltimore,
Maryland, from whom the necessary
information and application blanks
may be obtained.
as ep il Cl
——Some people in Germany still
think that others shared responsibility
for starting and prosecuting the war.
Possibly that is true, but the others
were unimportant figures in the affair,
—Subseribe for the Watchman.
EE Hairy
YELL BRHTIDOTTANL nivel
Assistance fund of the sounty pn J
giving aid to 18 mothers with 50 oF
and appealed for the club’s influence |
with the |
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—H. J. Rubright, of Stowe, Bucks coun-
ty, on Monday shot a twelve-pound
ground-hog which he caught feeding on an
ear of corn, which he had placed in a field
for 1abbits and birds.
—Snow-bound at Masontown last week,
members.of the Waynesburg College fresh-
men basketball squad spent a night sleep-
ing in empty caskets at the undertaking
establishment of H. A. Johnson, a trustee
of the college. The morgue offered the on-
Iy available sleeping quarters in the town.
—Mrs. Mary D. Camwell, convicted of
embezzlement in connection with misappro-
priation of $5000 in school children’s de-
posits at Midland Savings and Trust Com-
pany at Midland, in Beaver county, on Mon-
day was sentenced by the court to serve
seven and one half years in the Allegheny
County Work House and pay a fine of
$500.
—DBelieved to have suffered a stroke of
apoplexy, Frederick Craft, 61, of Erie, Pa.,
was found on Tuesday sitting on a hot
plate in his room at the home of Frank J.
Fahey, with fire going in full blast. He
had been burned so seriously before the
fire in his clothing could be extinguished
that he died in a hospital shortly after-
ward.
—Leaving his horse and wagon in front
of a house, William H. Augsten, of Pitts-
burgh, returned from delivering a sack of
coal to find only the neck and head of the
equine in view. The rest of the animal
had sunk into soft dirt thrown into the
street by a working crew. It took three
hours and a block and tackle to rescue the
horse.
—J. Fred Weaver, prominent socially and
a well known lumber dealer, of Clearfield,
was found dead last Saturday afternoon in
the Susquehanna river near that place.
Weaver had been interested in real estate
at Gulfport, Miss., and was reported to
have lost heavily. Since his return from
the south he had been in ill-health and
despondent.
—Miss Rosa Kubach, for thirty years
employed as a domestic in the home of
Mathias Seddinger, shipbuilder and real
estate operator, of Philadelphia, has been
made the sole heiress to the fortune left
by the financier, who died January 23.
While appraisement of the estate has not
been made, it is believed by friends that
it may total $200,000.
—Returning of hundreds of checks and
pieces of other mail to those who had ad-
dresed it to the Acme Farms, started last
week at the Bloomsburg post office. The
farms figured in an alleged nation-wide
swindle which was uncovered last De-
cember; but the mail was held there until
permission was received from the Post
Office Department to return it.
—Rosie Black, 25, of Altoona, afflicted
with deafness and the loss of speech for
23 years, due to a malady in childhood, has
been partially cured. She is able to pro-
nounce her name and can hear a watch
ticking. She is undergoing treatment ut
DuBois, and it is believed she will recover.
She’ was graduated from the Edgewood
Park School for the Deaf in Pittsburgh.
—Charles Miller, wealthy Franklin resi-
dent and former head of the Pennsylvania
national guard, in a suit filed on Tuesday
in common pleas court against the News-
paper. Printing company, publishers of the
Gazette-Times, Pittsburgh, asked $30.000
damages for publication of am article in
the paper in connection with a divorce
action filed by Miller's wife. The item
was published December 4, 1925.
—Dr. William Mather Lewis, president
of George Washington University, Wash-
ington, D. C., has accepted the presidency
of Lafayette College. His election to head
Lafayette became publicly known on Tues-
day when Judge E. J. Fox, president of
the Lafayette board of trustees, received
word of his acceptance. Dr. Lewis was
elected last December at a private meeting
of the board held in Philadelphia.
—Dr. B. E. Bamble, of Manchester, York
county, attended a public sale last Sat-
urday and purchased an old muzzle-londing
shotgun. His friends teased him a bit for
buying such a relic, and the physician took
the joshing good-natured. When he got
Lome he tried to remove what he supposed
was a collection of old paper from the
barrel, but did not succeed, and called in
a friend, who knew more about guns. They
made a ramrod and set to work, when out
cama a 85 bill. The “excavating” continued
with the result that they extracted thirteen
$10 bills. All the bills were dated twenty-
three years ago, and were covered with
sofr rust.
—Clinton C. Seebold, fifteen-year-old boy,
of Riverside, Northumberland county, was
killed instantly when a shot gun was dis-
charged into his breast at the home of his
| barents at ten o'clock Sunday. John Mor-
ris sixteen years of age, a companion of
the dead youth, who was in the act of re-
ceiving the gun from Seeboid’s hands when
the fatal shot was fired, was not held at an
inquest conducted later by Dr. Joseph K.
Fisher, county coroner. Companions of
Seebold and Morris testified at the inquest
‘that the tragedy was the aftermath of a
hectic evening, during which Seebold “ran
wild” with a gun during a demonstration
of wild west methods and indicated that
the shooting was an accident.
—Cashiers of three banks in Scranton
i have been subpoenaed to appear before the
' federal grand jury in Cleveland investi-
! gating an alleged been running syndicate
| said to have shipped the beverage from
‘ Seranton, Edwardsville and Lock Haven
| into Ohio. Deputy United States Marshal
; Gould, of Cleveland, went to Scranton last
‘Thursday and served summons on the
: cashiers of the Dollar State bank, Bosak
| State bank and the Anthracite Trust com-
; pany. The subpoenaes order the bank of
ficials to produce records involving the
financial transactions of William Loughran
jand W. J. Vincent, of Scranton; Patrick
| F. McGowan, or William A. Quinn, Harry
Stahl and George I. ,Perrick.
—A fractured coceyx, injury to the sac-
i roiliaz point, two broken ribs, bruises and
contusions from the back to the knee, and
a blow on the head with attendant pain,
and nervous shock entitle one to a damage
| of $55,000. That amount is claimed by Miss
| Fern A. Everett, employee of the Citizen's
: National bank, of Washington, Pa., in a
| suit filed against Mr. and Mrs. John S.
{ Brookman, owners of a property in North
Main street. Miss Everett avers she fell on
the pavement in front of their property
and suffered the injuries described in her
: statement. She claims that the owners
are liable as the ice on which she fell was
formed by water dripping from the roof of
|a porch which projects out over the paves
ment.
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