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INK SLINGS.
—Gosh, how perturbed and unhappy
we are. We just abhor fights.
——Senator Borah is a strict con-
structionist. That is he construes his
contract with the people as binding.
—This lovely March weather is
merely setting the stage for the
tragedy of frozen peach blossoms in
April.
—Pity poor Jim Furst. Think of
all the good fishing he is going to miss
while he’s keeping the courts going
and hustling around for votes.
— Also, pity poor Arthur Dale. Jim
Furst has his Dorworth, Ward Flem-
ing has his Scott, but Arthur: Both
his political god-father and god-moth-
er are gone.
—In a very short time you will
know whether Governor John Fisher is
the man you, who voted for him,
thought him to be or whether he is the
one Mellon and Grundy knew him to
be.
—Here’s hoping that “General”
Rosalie Jones, militant and suffragist
leadar and multi-millionairess, who
has just embarked on the matrimonial
seas with the Senator from Washing-
ton won’t find herself in a Dill-pickle.
—The conviction of Harry F. Sin-
clair, millionaire oil magnate, of con-
tempt of the United States Senate,
isn’t any too reassuring to “Big” Tom
«Cunningham, the Philadelphia ward
leadar, who is charged with the same
offense.
—Why put a tax of three cents a
gallon on gasoline? If the State
needs the money why don’t we do
away with the Legislature. It can’t
...do anything without the approval of
W. L. Mellon, anyway, so why the use
of paying a lot of rubber stamps for
sitting in Harrisburg.
—Justice Seeger, of New York, has
‘our approval of his finding in the
Browning—Heenan separation suit.
“Peaches” married “Bunny” for his
money—nothing else. She made her
bed. Let her lie in it. If there were
more Justice Seegers there would be
fewer “gold diggers.”
—Like Banquo’s ghost old John
Barley-corn keeps rising and rising in
the halls of the Legislature at Harris-
burg. A few years ago he was down-
ed for the count every time he came
up. Now he seems to get on his feet
‘before the count of ten every time he
is knocked down. It is beginning to
look as if Gifford took the “brass
knuckles” with him when he moved
out of that Front street house in Har-
risburg.
—If we. thought that any of yon
wear ~ flannels “anymore we would
suggest that you stick to them long
after they stick to you. But flannels
have gone the way of the strip of eel
skin around your wrist and the string
of red yarn around your neck to pre-
vent nose-bleed. Woolens are passe.
If you don’t believe it tell us why
American Wool pfd, a seven per cent.
stock was down to fifty-nine on Tues-
day.
—A few days ago a five year old
lad who lives on Water street, Belle-
fonte, swallowed a nickel. When his
mother learned of her son’s gastro-
nomical performance she was worried.
Worried lest there might be some dire-
ful consequence. Sensing her concern
the little fellow tried to reassure her
cand said: “Oh, mommie, it was only
-one of them with a lady and stars on
it. If it had been one of them with
-a buffalo it might have kicked the
:stuffin’ out of me.”
—That Leopold boy is on the front
pages again. The pampered, college
‘youth who murdered little Bobbie
Franks for a thrill, only two years
ago, is said to have planned and fin-
anced recent escapes of fellow convicts
from the Joliet, Ill, penitentiary. If
Leopold has the super-mind that he
was credited with having at the time
«of his trial in Chicago it seems to us
‘that there are a lot of dumb-bells in
.charge of the Joliet prison if they per-
mitted him to “worm”: his way into a
position where he engineered a general
delivery of all of its inmates.
—We’ve never had the futility of un-
dertaking to cross the bridge before
:coming to it brorght home as over-
whelmingly tousasit was last week.
‘We had worried for several days, spent
one sleepless night and fell off a bit
con our feed, all because we thought
we would have to be the goat and
start the fight that seemed inevitable
between the Dorworth and Scott fac-
tions in Centre county. Lord, how we
suffered and shrank from it. Almost,
we had decided to follow Tom Harter’s
policy of pouring oil on the troubled
waters when a copy of Mr. Secretary
Dorworth’s ‘Republican was handed us
and we read the startling announce-
ment that if there are any chips on
Senator Scott’s shoulder Mr. Secre-
tary Dorworth is going to knock them
off himself. He has brought about the
appointment of James C. Furst Esq.,
to be president judge of the courts
of Centre county, announced his in-
tention to fight for Mr. Furst’s nom-
ination and election and stated that
all friends of the Fisher administra-
tion will be expected to stand loyally
back of him in the massacre of Sen-
ator Scott and his friend Mr. Ward
Fleming, who has the nerve to aspire
to judicial honors in defiance of the
‘wishes ‘of the new Secretary of For-
‘ests and Waters. So you see, the
‘fight’s started and all our worry about
“pimpin” it was for nothing.
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VOL. 72.
Fair Count.
In writing to the chairman of the
Slush Fund committee, Senator Reed,
of Missouri, said that “I expect upon
the convening of Congress next De-
cember to make a request for a
prompt and complete recount of the
vote of the entire State by the Com-
mittee on Privileges and Elections.”
Mr. Vare was appealing to public
credulity. He knows as well as Tom
Cunningham and Senator Dave Reed
know that a recount of the vote of
Pennsylvania for Senator would show
that he was defeated by a very con-
siderable majority. Mr. Vare imagines
that political exigencies might influ-
ence the Senate Committe on Privi-
leges and Elections to falsify the re-
count as it did in the Newberry case
a few years ago.
But the Committee on Privileges
and Elections will not have an oppor-
tunity to count the Senatorial vote of
Pennsylvania for 1926 for the reason
that that work, in-so-far as it seems
necessary, will be performed by the
special committe of the Senate, creat-
ed for that purpose and still in ex-
istence. Under the resolution of Sen-
ator Robinson that committee was
created to perform a certain service.
It worked diligently during the period
since it was created but the close of
the session found its work incomplete,
But as the Senate is a continuing body
and must make and keep a record of
its activities, the special cormnmittee
will continue to function until its re-
port is submitted.
The pretense of Mr. Vare that he is
willing to have the vote recounted
comes with poor grace in view of the
strenuous efforts made by himself and
his friends to stifle the investigation
at the close of the recent session of
Congress. It cannot be claimed that
the special committee of the Senate
was partisan or unfair. It is made vp
of two Republicans, two Democrats
and one Independent, elected as a Re-
publican, and it was unanimous in all
its actions. Not a single compiaiat
was made against its decisions during
the long period it functioned in var-
ious sections of the country. Yet Wil--
liam S. Vare casts a reflection upon
it by his preference for the Committee
on Privileges and Elections.
mer
——Earthquakes have been unusual-
ly active and destructive this year and
nobody has ever been able to find any
good reason for them.
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Trying to Protect Fraud.
Senator Keys, of New Hampshire,
chairman of the Senate Committee on
Accounts, has refused to issue a war-
rant for funds to pay the expenses of
impounding the ballot boxes of Lacka-
wanna, Luzerne and Schuylkill coun-
ties in this State. The order to im-
pound the boxes was given by Senator
“Jim Reed, of Missouri, at the ‘request
of William B. Wilson who is contest-
ing with William S. Vare for the seat
in the Senate Some time ago 1t was
agreed between the disputants that
either might impound boxes in any
county or zection in which he helieved
fraud had bean committed. In pur-
suance of this agreement the Chair-
man of the Slush Fund committee of
the Senate ordered impounding in the
counties named. 4
Several hundred ballot boxes of
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are al-
ready in the custody of the sergeant-
at-arms of the Senate, obtained under
orders of the Slush Fund committee
for the ostensible purpose of recount-
ing the ballots. Senator Keys, of New
Hampshire, has refused to provide
funds to carry out this purpose. It is
not denied that the purpose is legiti-
mate and right. But the Republicans
in control of the Senate have deter-
mined to prevent a canvass of the
votes in order to prevent exposure of
the frauds perpetrated in the interest
of the Republican candidate. It cost
several thousand dollars to impound
the boxes and convey them to Wash-
ington, but completing the work would
expose fraud.
But the people are not being fooled
by this silly expedient. Rvery think-
ing man and woman in Pennsylvania
knows that fraud has been committed
in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Many
of them probably imagined that the
frauds were not sufficiently extensive
to overcome the Vare majority. But
they are rapidly coming to a different
frame of mind, They reason wisely
that if an examination of the ballots
would not alter the result, Dave Reed,
of Pittsburgh, and Senator Keys, of
New Hampshire, would gladly give
all possible assistance to the work of
recounting the’ votes. The stupid
policy of the Republican leaders in and
out of Congress is moulding public
opinion for William B. Wilson.
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——When the accounts are summed
up it will be discovered that the fil-
ibuster was bad medicine for the Vare
malady. :
BEL
Vare Falsely Pretends He Wants a)
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
LEFONTE, PA.. MARCH 18, 1927.
NO. 11.
Gasoline Tax on Hard Lines.
vania wants good roads and is willing
to pay a fair price for them.
sentiment is the result of experience.
We have had all kinds of roads from
the worst possible to the best attain-
able and find that good roads are not
only profitable to all classes but
afford pleasure and comfort besides.
Good roads place every farmer within
reach of markets for his products and
enables every business man to practi-
cally double the volume of trade by
expediting his operations. Thousands
of doilars which under the old system
were wasted in repair to vehicles are
saved and in numerous other ways
good comes to thousands through the
medium of good roads.
But these facts afford no reason
why there should be discrimination in
the levy of the expenses of good roads.
For some unaccountable reason the
owners and users of motor vehicles in
Pennsylvania have been “held up” by
the Legislature for the alleged purpose
of improving the highways. They are
very properly made to pay licenses for
their machine and the right to operate
them and a few years ago were justly
taxed a cent a gallon on gasoline con-
sumed. If it had stopped there there
would be no cause of complaint. But
a session later the tax was doubled, as
an emergency. The next session the
double tax was continued as an emer-
gency levy and now it is proposed to
make it three cents and permanent.
This proposition put forth as an
administration measure is without ex-
cuse other than that ancient one “we
need the money.” The new adminis-
tration, following the example of the
Coolidge government at Washington,
estimating the gasoline consumers as
easy marks thought it safe to put
one over on them by raising the gaso-
line tax to three cents a gallon and
making it a permanent levy. If only
the pleasure seeking drivers of high
powered cars were concerned the plan
might have worked, But the truck
drivers and merchants who employ de-
livery wagons entered protest and it
will require all the coercive force of
the Mellon machine to put it across.
The gasoline tax is on hard lines.
——Congressman-elect J. M. Hazlet
shows the real Vareville spirit. As
Congressman he is drawing $10,000 a
year and as Recorder of Deeds he gets
$10,000 but he refuses to relinquish
either job.
reece peg
Important Fight Probable.
| Unless the reports from Harrisburg
| are misleading there is likely to be a
fine shindy between the Governor and
the Republican organization. The
Governor has given complete approval
to four measures of legislation for
the impovement of our ballot system.
They are not really ideal measures but
would correct some of the worst faults
of the system and might lead ultimate-
ly to greater improvements. But the
other evening state chairman W. L.
Mellon, having been called from Flor-
ida, arrived in Harrisburg and an-
nounced that the four ballot reform
bills introduced by Senator Weingart-
ner are merely skeletons to be built up
by amendments to the proportions
the machine desires.
Upon receiving information of the
attitude of chairman Mellon the Gov-
ernor declared that he will insist on
the adoption of his bills without
amendment or alteration. If he ad-
heres to that declaration and Mr. Mel
lon holds to his view that certain
amendments are essential the dispute
will necessarily develop a scrap in the
Legislature which will indicate the
source of patronage. If Mr. Mellon
controls, as many people believe, not
only the ballot bills but all other leg-
islation will be shaped by Colonel
Eric Fisher Wood. On the other hand
if the Governor controls the Senators
and Representatives in the General
Assembly will promptly respond to
his service.
Mr. Mellon who has gone into poli-
tics for the same reason that another
man might go into bootlegging, is anx-
ious to please Mr. Vare and those who
manage his organization in Philadel-
phia. It may be that anxiety to se-
cure the renomination and re-election
of Senator Dave Reed is the moving
cause in the case. Every one knows
that if the Pinchot committee bills had
gone through the extra session Vare
would not have been nominated. In
view of recent events Senator Dave
Reed occupies a place in public esti-
mation very similar to that of Vare
before his election and it looks as if
Mellon is trying to hitch them up to-
gether for the inevitable battle of next
year.
——Ramsay McDonald, labor leader
and formerly Prime Minister of Eng-
land, will visit this country next
month. His purpose on the visit has
not been armounced.
Every man and woman in Pennsyl- |
This |
| Controlling Power in the Legislature.
The other day, in the news cclumns
of the daily papers, under a Harris-
burg date, a statement that “substan-
tial increases in benefits under the
State Workmen’s Compensation act of
{1915 to injured industrial workers
'and dependents of workers killed
| while at work are provided in amend-
iments to the act introduced in the
i Senate and House.” This represents
{ legislation that has been urged upon
the General Assembly for at least ten
years.
the act of 1915 is inadequate and the
processes of applying the relief
too slow. The Republican organization
has stood in the way of improvement
from the beginning and it has been
known that Joseph R. Grundy express-
ed the purposes of the partv.
In view of these facts it was sur-
prising to learn by the language of the
same dispatch that “the hill, according
to Col. Eric Fisher Wood, chairman
of the Republican State Ixecutive
committee, who has conducted the ne-
gotiations between representatives of
capital and organized labor, has not
only the approval of these two, but of
vernor Fisher, the Republican or-
ganization and Joseph R. Grundy,
‘head of the Pennsyivania Manufactur-
ers’ Association.” In another Harris-
i burg dispatch of the same day infor-
mation was given that chairman Mel-
lon’s absence from the scene had
caused delay in the consideration of
; ballot reform legislation. Apparently
i the new bosses’ approval is required
on all political legislation.
For the first time in the history of
the Commonwealth the Legislature of
Senators and Representatives elected
organization in the persons of chair-
man W, L. Mellon and Eric Fisher
ment concerning the proposed amend-
ments to the compensation act and
that in reference to the ballot reform
legislation, indicate the purpose of the
party machine to control all legisla-
tion during the session. Mr. Mellon and
Col. Eric Fisher Wood are not official-
Ty” connected with the Légistature but-
they exercise controlling power while
responsible to no one other than the
self-created machine,
——The State Supreme court, on
Monday, handed down a decision in
the case of Charles H. Watson vs. M.
D. Kelley and H. P. Kelley, trading
as the Kelley Bros. Coal Co., in which
they affirmed the decree of the court
| of common pleas of Centre county ex-
cept as to the item of interest. The
| record was ordered remitted to the
| lower court to adjust the interest in
| accordance with the rule laid down by
the Supreme court. Mr. Watson ob-
tained a verdict in the Centre county
court and the case was appealed by
the Kelley Bros.
S————— ees etn ees.
—General Chang, who is leading
one of the many armies that are tilt-
ing at wind mills in China, wants the
people of Shanghai to pay him five
million dollars tp go outside the city
to meet the advancing forces of Ho-
Ying-Yin. The poor heathen. He's
no sport at all. He ought to come
over here and absorb a bit of the spirit
of Mr. Secretary Dorworth. He's
ready to fight anywhere. No matter
whose or where the dung-hill is.
—The Associated Glee clubs of
America are offering a prize of five
hundred dollars for the best composi-
tion of a four-part male chorus. Why
the extravagance when no glee cluh
that we have ever heard has been able
to get all the possible harmony out of
“Genevieve” or “Bring the Wagon
Home, John.”
——If the administration fails to
organize a three-power arms limita-
tion conference, it will still have a
chance for a one-power affair. Mean-
time the League of Nations will at-
tend to the arms limitation.
——The Governor threatens to ex-
tend the session if his programme is
not fulfilled within the time limit.
That means an extra session or else.
—“Fatty” Arbuckle is going to Ger-
many to make pictures. That will
help to make life easier for Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll over there.
——City Treasurer Mackey’s “His-
tory of the Election of Vare,” is the
very latest thing in fiction and by far
the most absurd.
——We’ll soon know who is who in
official Harrisburg. It is said that
Mellon is whetting his hunting knife.
~——Possibly a good stiff verdict for
the plaintiff would teach Henry Ford
better manners.
RS fA ——————
—Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
The compensation provided by !
this year was organized, not by the
by the people, but by the Republican !
Wood, his handy man. The state-:
James C. Furst Wins Appointment for
Judge of Centre County.
As predicted in this paper last week
James C. Furst has won the appoint-
ment for president judge of Centre
county. The Watchman was so in-
formed on Monday night although his
nomination was not sent to the Sern
cate for confirmation until Tuesday,
: when it wus promptly acted upon. Mr.
Furst will succeed the late Judge Har-
. ry Keller, who passed away quite sud-
, denly on March 2nd.
Mr. Furst is a son of the late Aus-
tin O. and Caroline Chamberlin Furst.
His father served as president judge
of Centre county from 1885 to 1895.
James was educated at the Bellefonte
Academy and Princeton University.
He read law under his father and sue-
cessfully passing the Supreme court
examination was admitted to practice
at the Centre county bar on April 6th,
1906. He at once became associated
. with his father and following his
death fell heir to the lucrative prac-
tice of the firm. In the fall of 1915
he was elected district attorney and
re-elected in 1919, serving until the
first Monday of January, 1924. Dur-
ing his eight years in that office he
successfully tried a number of grave
Commonwealth cases and had a cred-
itable record during his eight years
of service.
Mr. Furst has practiced before the
Public Service Commission since its
creation in 1913 and also before the
Interstate Commerce Commission, in
i Washington. He has represented the
‘ Centre county bar at State bar asso-
ciation meetings and is a director,
secretary and attorney for the First
National bank of Bellefonte. A mem-
“be of the Presbyterian church, he
| served . nine years on the board of
trustees. He is a Mason in high stand-
ing, a member of the Bellefonte lodge
of Elks and the Nittany Country club.
He has always been actively interest-
ed in politics and has served as sec-
retary of the Republican county com-
; mittee at various times.
In 1913 he married Miss Mary
| Adele Harrar, of Williamsport, and
| they have two sons, Austin. Q- Furst
land Ellwood. a
| Mr. Furst’s appointment will be
i good only until the first Monday in
| January, 1928, but he has already an-
! nounced that he will be a candidate
‘at the primaries next September for
| the Republican nomination for a full
{ term on the bench.
| If Mr. Furst’s commission arrives
he will be sworn into office at 10
o'clock this (Friday) morning by
, Recorder Lloyd A. Stover, and will be
the third Judge Mr. Stover will have
sworn in during his four year’s term;
Judge Dale following the death of
Judge Quigley; Judge Harry Keller
and now Judge Furst, a record never
| before equalled in Centre county.
E——— A m————————
——Elisha Lee, vice president of
State College, on Friday, and made
ian address to the eleven hundred stu-
{ dents in the school of engineering. He
told them to “forswear allegiance to
the white collar and avoid the prac-
tices of the lounge lizard” if they hop-
ed to make a success of railroad work
or any other important, profession.
Mr. Lee came to Bellefonte from
Pittsburgh and was met here by Dean
Sackett and taken to the College by
automobile. When the train which
brought him here pulled into Belle-
fonte the Dean had his eyes set for
the vice president’s private car, but
there wasn’t any. Mr. Lee climbed off
the rear end of a day coach in which
he had ridden from Pittsburgh.
SE H— | p———————
A Check for Election Frauds,
From the Pittsburgh Post.
Among the election measures pro-
posed as a check on fraudulent prac-
tices is one providing for the opening
of a percentage of the ballot boxes,
selected by lot, before noon of the day
following each election, and a recount-
ing of ballots. The more thought that
is given to this the better the proposi-
tion appears to be liked by those seek-
ing election reform. The natural ef-
fect of it should be to put all the elec-
tion officers on guard against error or
fraud, since no one would know which
boxes would be likely to be it. As now
before the Legislature the bill would
require that the president judge of the
common pleas court of each county
order three per cent. of the ballot
boxes used to be brought in and the
ballots re-counted, the boxes affected,
as referred to, to be determined by lot.
This proposition, heard increasingly
in the past few years, is among the
recommendations made by the Alle-
gheny county grand jury which inves-
tigated the returns from some of the
distriets in the election of last fall.
The generally favorable comment
heard on it from those interested in
strengthening the election laws should
impress the Assembly. The knowl-
edge that such a. check-up would be
made could not but have an effect for
the reduction of error and fraud in
the returns. This bill should be pass-
ed along with the others in the pro-
gram. :
‘| alleged heldup. The
the Pennsylvania railroad, was at:
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
+ —A. C. Bressler, of Greenburr, Clinton
county, sustained a fracture of the arm
when he turned, in the State highway, to
catch an apple a friend was throwing him,
and stepped backward into a snowbank.
—An unidentified highwayman was shot
and killed by Howard Granklin, a Dela-
ware and Hudson railroad patrolman, at
Carbondale, late Sunday night during an
two accomplices of
the dead man made their escape.
—~Cashier William Richards, of the Elys-
burg National bank, has identified John
Mayeros, of Cleveland, as the man who
handcuffed him to the assistant cashier
during the bank hold-up several months
ago. Several other suspects have been ar-
rested.
—As a result of a sting from a wasp,
while on duty at the General Refractories
plant at Mount Union, where he was em-
ployed, R. M. QGutshall developed blood
poison and has been in a serious condi-
tion. Mr. Gutshall had continued at his
work for several days.
-—Angered at his wife because she bobbed
her hair in defiance of his wishes, Thomas
Belock, 44, of South Scranton, severely
scalded the woman when a kettle of hot
water was spilled in a scuffle. Belock
walked into police headquarters and sur-
rendered. He said that his wife held the
kettle in her hand when he grappled with
her.
—- James Cox 24, of Claysburg, Blair
county, preferred the icy waters of the
Juniata river at Hollidaysburg to the Blair
county jail. Arrested on a minor charge,
he was escorted to the jail by two officers,
but eluded the police on the doorstep and
fled toward the river, escaping the officers
when he waded the waters. He is still at
large.
—A verdict of guilty was brought in
against three young men of Nuremburg,
who were on trial in the Schuylkill county
court for smearing tar on Mrs. George
David and her son-in-law, George Repko,
of Nuremburg, and then, after compelling
them to roll in sand, setting them free on
the mountain and compelling them to walk
home.
—Frank Madeffer, of Pottsville, under
sentence of death in the electric chair for
the murder of James Laroz, has been in-
dicted by the grand jury of Schuylkill
county for keeping a disorderly house at
Ringtown. Madeffer smiled when a copy
of the charge was shown him. “I have
been veparing to enter another world but
that Lrings me back to earth again,” he
said with a smile.
—Bloomsburg’s worst fire in three dec-
ades on Saturday destroyed the Victoria
Theater, the Reimard building, housing
a department store and eight apartments,
and damaged several other buildings in the
business section with a loss estimated at
$150,000. Firemen from Danville, Berwick
and Catawissa helped fight the blaze, which
was prevented from spreading to am entire
block along Main street.
—In an opinion handed down Saturday
morning by Judge Stock, of York county,
the award of $2400 made by the Work-
men's Compensation Board to Mrs. Flor-
ence S. Saylor, whose husband, Harry Say-
lor, was drowned at a picnic of Gehly ear-
pet store employees on July 24, 1924, was
affirmed, It was held that Saylor was ac:
business of his employer.
—Released from the Elkton, Md., jail on
Saturday, after serving a short term for a
minor offense, Jacob Dill, 50, colored, on
Sunday hopped a freight train to return to
Peach Bottom, Lancaster county, in an
effort to obtain employment with a con-
struction company. As the train sped past
the station, Dill leaped from a car. He
| landed against an embankment, but fell
backward underneath the train and was
ground to death,
—The nineteenth child was born to Mg.
| and Mrs. Gray Rivula, at Tyrone, last Wed-
nesday. Rivulo, who is janitor at the Ly-
rone passenger station, is quite proud of
his family and states that he and Theodore
Roosevelt believe in large families. Five
of the nineteen children are dead, amd: the
family is well taken care of and educated
by their parents. Mr. Rivulo is a nafural-
ized citizen and his family attend the Co-
lumbia Avenue Methodist church regularly.
—A Wheling, W. Va., man, who refuszd
to give his name, exhausted his supply of
gasoline in the country, near Washington,
Pa., late last Saturday night, and tried to
flag down a big truck going toward Wheel-
ing. The truck swerved and slowed up as
the stalled motorist waved his flashlight,
but did not step. As it passed, soinething
struck the motorist in the face. Tt was a
sealed envelope containing a $100 bill,
That he was mistaken for an officer by the
driver of a liquor-ranning . truck, whe
thought to bribe him, was the .xplanution
ef the police.
-—A little thing like swallowing a plate
of false teeth during a violent coughing
spell did not prevent Graham J. Dague,
milk dealer, from continuing his rounds
until he had served his entire route in
Coatesville. Then he consulted a physician
who took him to a local hospital where
can X-ray picture showed the teeth lodged
near the entrance to the stomach. He was
removed to the University of Pennsylvania
hospital, at Philadelphia, where the teeth
were removed by Dr. Gabriel Tucker, as-
sistant to Dr. Chevalier Jackson, inventor
of the bronchoscope.
—The mystery of a series of burglaries
at Barnesboro, extending over a period of
a year, was cleared up on Monday when
Cambria county officers arrested nine boys,
a girl and the father of two of the youngs-
ters. A large part of the loot was also re-
covered. The minors are being held for
juvenile court and the man, Frank Bakn,
is in the county jail im default of bail.
Some of the youngsters are also lodged in
jail. The theft of a salesman’s sample case
from his automobile Saturday night led
to the arrest of the gang, which had looted
stores and railroad cars.
—A girl was burned to death and thre2
other members of the family were injured
when fire, believed to have been started
by bootleggers, destroyed the home of
George Wilson, justice of the peace, an:
five other buildings in the mining village
of Wilpen, near Ligonier, on Monday.
The loss is estimated at $100,000. Investi-
gation showed that the blaze was started
under the porch of the Wilson home. Coun-
ty and State officers aré investigating. Eva
Jane Wilson, 13 years old, was burned to
death. . Her mother and a brother, Arthur,
were rescued - with: difficulty. They were #
burned and otherwise injured, and were
removed to a hospital. Wilson, active in
enforcing the prohibition laws, was not at
home when the fire was discovered.
tually engaged in the furtherance of the =~