Beit
INK SLINGS.
. —The more we study the vote cast
at the primaries last week the more
convinced we are that there was a
Fleming-Holtzworth-Wilkinson com-
bination. It was what in the sporting
language would be called a “natural,”
but it must have been there, all the
same.
—Such foolishments, as Roy Cohen
‘would say. The Secretary of Forests
and Waters felt worried about going
back to Harrisburg because he was
“ashamed to face Governor Fisher.”
If Charley only had wit enough to see
the fun there is in politics he would
have greeted his boss something like
this: Cheer up John! Beidleman
licked you and Mike Stroup a good
deal worse in Dauphin than Scott
licked you and me in Centre.
—Bellefonte is likely to pay “Doc”
Parrish a pretty compliment in No-
vember. He is one of the oldest and
most careful business men of the
town. His sound judgment and con-
servative ideas, together with the
very honorable life he has led here,
will appeal to his friends and neigh-
‘bors especially when they come to
marking their ticket for a County
Commissioner whom they can rely on
to get a hundred cents worth of ser-
vice or supplies for every dollar of
the tax payers money that has to be
spent for them.
—We have in mind the organization
of a “pep” meeting the night before
the election. We think the independ-
ent Republicans of the county would
just love to have us invite them to a
spot large enough to accomodate the
crowd and supply a battle song for
the game next day. The muse is
ticklin’ us like the devil and we have
visions of becoming the Irving Berlin
of Centre. county for we're thinking
of stealing H. S. Taylor’s song about
“the Brewers Big Horses” and adapt-
ing it thusly:
“Senator Scotts’ big steam roller
Can't run over me.
—The candidates whom the Demo-
cratic party advocates for election to
the various county offices this fall are
clean and capable. No apologies need
be made for any of them. None of
them were brought out by a boss or a
faction and they owe their nomina-
tions to the fair and untrammeled
determination of a majority of the
voters of the party they represent.
Being absolutely free from sinister po-
litical entanglements they offer the
county the best service of which they
are individually capable. In other
words, when you vote for a Democrat-
ic candidate this fall you will be vot-
ing for that candidate alone, and not
for a man behind him who might be
“hoping to build up an expensive ma-
chine for the taxpayers to maintain.
—If the Chambers of Commerce,
the Business Mens associations, the
Rotarians, the Kiwanians and the
newspapers of Centre county want
some real, honest-to-goodness propa-
ganda for the exploitation of Centre
county we've got it for them. Let
‘them urge the Ringling Bros., to came
up here instead of going to Europe
for talent for “the greatest shows on
earth” next season. There are more
-equilibrists in the Republican ranks in
Centre county than there are eggs in
‘a Delaware shad. Hardening of the
arteries, rheumatism, senility, corns,
‘bunions, warts and that feeling that
Lydia Pinkham used to make pink
pills for might slow up a lot of politi-
cal acrobats, but not those in Centre.
No matter what anatomical handicaps
they may have there are legions that
can carry “two waters on one shoul-
der.”
—If we had nothing else to do than
‘this we could make “Ink Slings’ near-
ly as good a column as any newspaper
in the country carries. We have, in
the ‘archives, letters from many who
have tried to “kid” us into believing
that it is the best column of para-
graphs that is published. Notwith-
standing the claims of any other col-
umnist the records of the Watchman
office will prove that this is the pio-
reer “colyum” of them all and that
its present writer is the dean of
eolumn makers. For several years we
have been distressed because there
are not forty-eight hours in a day so
that we could find time to express our
thanks to our readers for the many
letters we receive. Feeling that it is
a crime to consign words of praise,
constructive criticism, diabolical con-
demnation and pitying sympathy to
the waste paper basket we have asked
the editor—who bears the same rela-
tionship to us as the “White House
spokesman” bears to Cal, to open a
column wherein any one may get off
anything that is on his or her chest.
Accordingly the Watchman spokesman
has told us that a column will be open-
ed on page 4 this week under the head
of “Talks with the Editor” in which
every communication that is not libel-
ous against anybody else than our-
selves will be published. Whether
you are a Democrat or Republican,
Wet or Dry, Jew or Gentile, Saint or
Sinner, friend or foe of the Watchman
—its editor or its policy—you are in-
vited to say just what you think in this
column. If you will turn to page four
you will find the fulminations of the
first spouter; a brick-topped kid from
Berkeley, California, who has the pre-
sumption to intimate that we are
mellowing. Maybe we are, but if we
ever start the “unexpurgated mem-
oirs” he suggests Henry Ford will
find storm cellars better sellers than
{livers in Ceritre county.
VOL. 72.
Sad Ending of Vare’s Hopes.
No man in the State was quite as
sadly disappointed in the result of
the primary election as William 8S.
Vare, and no one else had quite as
large a stake. He had not only ac-
tually but ostentatiously set himself
up as the boss of the principal city of
the Commonwealth. He personally
picked the candidates of his party and
in his choice deliberately penalized
respectability. His object was not
only to impress the Senators in Con-
gress of his power but to disprove the
charges made by Governor Fisher and
State chairman W. S. Mellon, that he
is unfit for leadership. He hoped or
imagined that his hand-picked can-
didates would carry the city by over-
whelming majorities.
The vote cast for his candidates has
not only disappointed but disillusion-
ed him. It has shown to the Senators
in Congress that he is a liability rath-
er than an asset to his party in Penn-
sylvania. Moreover it has completely
demonstrated that the vast majority
given to him at the primary and gen-
eral elections of last year were fraud-
ulent. Honest and conscientious Sen-
ators, though partisans, will not be
persuaded that he was fairly elect-
ed to the Senate when they compare
his vote in Philadelphia at the pri-
mary election of 1926 with that of his
personally picked candidate for Mayor
this year. On the contrary they will
be convinced that he was elected by
fraud and that Fisher and Mellon told
the truth in their appraisemnt of him
last Spring.
The majority for Mr. Mackey, at
the primary election this year, was
upward of 200,000 less than that cast
for Mr. Vare in November of last
year in Philadelphia. The difference
may be justly set down as the fraudu-
lent votes cast for Vare last Novem-
ber. His Democratic opponent had a
majority of approximately 100,000
outside of Philadelphia and Allegheny
county, and substracting the fraudu-
lent vote from Vare’s total in Phila-
delphia Mr. Wilson would have been
elected and properly certified to the
Senate. The result of the primary
this year clearly establishes this fact,
and all Senators who are not blinded
It will make a sad ending of Vare'’s
ambition.
Harry Mackey, the Vare candi-
date for Mayor of Philadelphia, talks
as if he had spent his whole life try-
ing to purify. politics,
Philadelphia’s Conscience Aroused.
The meeting of independent Repub-
licans in Philadelphia, on Monday
evening, would indicate that while
longer contented. There were nearly
2000 men and women in attendance,
their purpose being to continue the
movement for honest elections and
clean municipal government so auspi-
ciously begun and admirably conduct-
ed in the contest of Mr. J. Hampton
Moore for the Republican nomination
for Mayor. A resolution urging Mr.
Moore to head a complete ticket to
cppose the Vare picked candidates
nominated at the recent primary and
the earnestness and enthusiasm ex-
pressed by the “home-owners of the
city,” fairly well-known men and wom-
en respected and trusted in their
communities, was unanimously adopt-
ed.
Upon the adoption of the resolution
Mr. Moore was called to the platform
and greeted with hearty enthusiasm.
When he said “I would prefer that
you pick another,” the response was
“we want Moore, you have got to
run.” And the chances are that he
will comply with the demand so sig-
nificantly expressed.
would have preferred service in the
ranks. Under ordinary conditions it
is the duty of a defeated candidate to
accept the result of the primary vote
as an expression of the sentiment of
the party. But he knows and the
Vare candidate knows that such is
not the case in this instance. As one
of the news reporters said, “the im-
pressive, massed gathering, spontane-
ous and charged with enthusiasm,”
voiced the sentiments of the people of
Philadelphia.
The people of Philadelphia have
been careless of their civic obliga-
tions. Because of this they have
earned the humiliating censure that
has been pronounced against them.
They have consented to the corrup-
tion that has heaped odium upon the
city for years. But the conscience of
the community seems to have been
aroused at least and “Hampy” Moore
will realize that it is his duty to lead
the forces of righteousness in a belat-
ed but welcome effort to rescue the
city from shame. His acceptance of
the proffered leadership will mark
the beginning of the end of corrupt
government in his native city. He
has served the public well in the past
and the people of the State will cheer<
fully encourage him to victory.
No doubt he
| der-bosses picked the party candidates
by political bigotry will realize it. |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
French Tariff May do Good.
If the new French tariff tax sched-
ules on American products will result
in a downward revision of our own
tariff tax rates, as now appears pos-
sible, it will be worth all the worry
it has caused even to the tariff mon-
gers of the Republican party. The
new French law, with its eighty per
cent tax on some of our important
exports, wouldn’t amount to a great
deal if it were limited to France.
Only about $300,000,000 worth of
American products are sold in France
in a year, and that is a small fraction
of our exports. But suppose other
European governments should follow
the example of France, and such a
proposition is under discussion in
European capitals, the result would
be different.
The industrial life of this country
is no longer in its infancy. It has
developed into a robust and progres-
sive manhood. But it cannot main-
tain its present proportions if its
markets are limited to an area within
our own borders. The United States
is no longer a debtor nation. It has
become the financial centre of the
world. If Europe and other national
| customers and consumers of our pro-
ducts should join in a movement to
tariff tax us out of their markets an
industrial collapse would be inevita-
ble. And we would have no just
cause of complaint if such a thing
should happen. We have been trying
to bar them . from our markets for
many years.
The Fordney-McCumber tariff law
is costing the consumers of the United
States upward of four billions of dol-
lars a year and yields to the govern-
ment in revenue less than half a bil-
lion. This discrepancy in receipts to
the government and expenditures by
the people should have influenced
Congress to correct the evil long ago.
But out of the billions of expense a
slush fund te buy ‘elections has been
drawn regularly and the tariff mon-
gers and Republican managers have
been indifferent to the injustice of the
operation to .the people who have to
pay. The .impending danger of a
widespread system of reprisals may
admonish . the tariff = mongers: to.
change their methods, if not their
| policies.
——The golf season has officially
closed and the season for ‘trans-oce-
anic flying ought to be: declared off
for this year.
Vare-Mellon Partnership in Distress.
The Vare-Mellon partnership finds
little comfort in a survey of the first
year of its operations. When chair-
man Mellon assmed charge of the con-
that city may still be corrupt it is no ; €ern after the primary election fol-
lowing the nominations last year it
1was an exceedingly promising enter-
. prise.
The Baker-Beidleman contin-
‘ gent had become a vanishing element
and meekly took a place under the
wing of the machine. The November
election, under the auspices of the
partnership, fulfilled the fondest ex-
pectations of the managers. The un-
derworld, including bootleggers, re-
sponded generously to the call for
service and record majorities were
turned in for the candidates in the big
cities and other centres of consider-
able population.
With such assured assets and
abundance of capital the partnership
set out to run things with a high hand.
In Philadelphia Mr. Vare named the
candidates for all the offices to be fill-
ed at the ensuing ' bi-election. In
Pittsburgh Mr. Mellon exercised the
same autocratic power and in Harris-
burg Mr. Beidleman permitted none
but his servile henchmen to get on his
ticket. In Scranton, Wilkes-Barre
and Pottsville the duly accredited un-
with a confidence that was amazing,
if not quite admirable. Thus the
partnership appeared to be moving
forward with bands blaring and colors
flying to certain and substantial vie-
tory. But “there’s many a slip twixt
the cup and the lip.”
In Philadelphia and Harrisburg the
Vare and Beidleman candidates got
through with greatly reduced raajor-
ities as compared with the corres-
ponding vote last year and in Pitts-
burgh, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and
Pottsvile the machine was “smashed
into smithereens.” And that is not
the end of the chapter. In Philadel-
phia, at least, the independent voters
are considering the question of fore-
itg the partnership -mo involuntary
be. kruptey. A coaern of which the
capital is so greaz'v impaired is a
menace ‘to business stability. . In
Pittsburgh Mr. Mellon will probably
be able to avert a revolt, and in the
other cities the people will await an-
other opportunity to administer a
deadly wollup.
+ ——The American marines are still
preserving order in Nicaragua by
shooting those who oppose their con-
trol.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. SEPTEMB
American Ambassador to Mexico.
Senator = Borah, chairman of the
Senate committee on Foreign Rela-
tions, according to Washington gos-
sip, proposes to investigate the ap-
pointment of Mr. Dwight W. Morrow,
of New York, to the office of Ambas-
sador to Mexico. Mr. Morrow has
been a partner in the Morgan bank
and it is rumored that that concern
has large money interests in Mexico.
Senator Borah probably imagines that
the appointment of Mr.
more to conserve the interests of the
Morgan bank than to promote friend-
ly relations with Mexico. “Dollar
Diplomacy” has been so much in evi-
dence in recent years, especially with
respect to dealings with the Latin-
American Republics, that suspicion
along these lines is reasonable.
Mr. Morrow, simultaneously with
the announcement of his appointment,
that relinquished his interest in the
profits or losses of its investments in
Mexico. But it is hardly to be ex-
given up his friendly feeling for his
late congenial associates in business
to the extent that he would favor
gan bank, even if the Southern Re-
public had a trifle the best of the ar-
gument. There are a good many peo-
ple, intelligent and capable observers,
who think that recent troubles in
Mexico are largely ascribable to the
cupidity of American concessionaries.
Friends of Mr. Morrow eulogize
him highly as a man of excellent
character and fine impulses. His ac-
tivities during the world war were
certainly of great merit and his ef-
forts in the direction of civic progress
deserve praise. But the people of
Mexico have come to view with suspi-
cion all American capitalists who have
Coolidge became President. Because
wiser and better to select an Am-
bassador who had never been concern-
ed in Wall Street operations or asso-
iated with the exploitation of Mex-
iin. oil, finances or railroads. One
equally capable, thus qualified, might
have been found.
——The interest in the recent pri-
maries in Centre county shows best
when the polling is compared with
that of other years. The Republican
vote for Judge was 2635 more than the
combined Keller and Dale votes at the
primaries of 1925 and 1527 more than
was given Coolidge at the general
election in 1924.
of that party in the county, for the
reason that it is known that hundreds
of Democrats were registered as Re-
publicans for the sole purpose of help-
ing along one or the other of the Re-
publican contestants for Judge. In
the Democratic primary of Tuesday
the combined vote of Walker and Zer-
by was 273 short of our vote at the
primaries in 1925, but there were four
aspirants on our ticket and correspond-
ingly greater interest taken in getting
the vote out.
——Announcement has been made
at Tyrone that the headquarters troop
be moved to that place, owing to the
mander, Major Ben C. Jones. This
will probably mean the entire reor-
ganization of the troop by the dis-
charge of Bellefonte members and re-
cruiting of a new force of soldiers in
Tyrone.
——One hundred and fifty thousand
fight fans paid $2,658,000 to see
Tunney get the decision in a forty
minute bout with Dempsey, at Chica-
than all the ministers in the country
would have been able to draw from
the pockets of their parishioners in
three months at preaching.
——Nearly three million dollars
were paid to see Tunney and Dempsey
punch each other for half an hour in
Chicago last week. An alert and effi-
cient fool killer might have reaped a
rich harvest on the occasion.
——If the Republican leaders in-
terpret the Coolidge message to mean
that he is actually out of the race,
Coolidge will be the most disappoint-
ed man in the party.
——It’s utterly impossible to work
up genuine sympathy for Dempsey.
If he really won victory in the seventh
round it is his own fault that he didn’t
score.
——George Wharton Pepper has
been suggested as an independent
candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia.
It is believed he would make it hot for
Varg
.
}
ER 30. 1927.
Morrow is’
declared that he has severed his con- |
nection with the Morgan bank and in !
pected that he has at the same time |
Mexico in a controversy with the Mor- |
been concerned in exploiting their re- 'r
sources within the period since Calvin
of these facts it would have been |
: County
We believe that it
will stand a long time as a record vote
of the 52nd machine gun battalion will '
residence there of the battalion com-
g0, last Thursday night. More money
NO. 38S.
Official Count Shows Fleming Won
Prohibition Nomination.
The official count of the vote cast
at the primaries last week shows that
M. Ward Fleming, of Philipsburg,
who was nominated for Judge of
Centre county on the Republican tick-
et, also won the nomination on the
Prohibition ticket by receiving 44
votes. fF
As Judge Furst was an interested
i party in the primaries he was ineli-
gible to superintend the counting of
the vote and sheriff E. R. Taylor had
charge. He was assisted by Misses
Marie Doll and Rachel Lambert and
John Bower. They began work at
, twelve o’clock last Friday and com-
. pleted the task on Wednesday morn-
ing. The official count shows the fol-
' lowing totals for each candidate:
| DEMOCRATIC.
| Judge of Centre County:
W. D. Zerby
W. Harrison
i Sheriff :
| Elmer Breon ..............
Harry E. Dunlap .........
H. E. Schreckengast
| Prothonotary:
Samuel C. Herr .........:......00L.. 3159
+ Treasurer:
Lyman L. Smith .............~ ve... 2032
t. Delmer T. Pearce .eenvverenesines! 843
Register:
Benjamin’. Boal... Th na 3010
Recorder:
A: W..MeDowell ............5. 000.0 1201
Sinie H. Hoy .......>....... nh. kx" 1290
Wagner D. Geiss ................ 0 1051
County Commissioners:
Join § Spessly".:.... oo 2936
Burdine Butler ............0.000" 1022
C:'M. Parsish ............ 0 5 1837
Auditors:
0... Stover .......i...... .. asiavias
H. E. Garbrick
W. W. Tate ...$
REPUBLICAN.
Judge of Centre County:
Arthur C. Dale ..
M. Ward Fleming
James C. Furst
Sheriff:
eter recrssnnsanenas
Harry Dukeman’,........... 0... 6936
‘ Prothonetary :
Po Roy Wilkinson ..... 0 0000 4741
| B. B. Haneoek ..............0n il 2707
reaswrer:
Jom TT, Harnish:...........5../....
i W. E. Hurley ....
i H. E. Holzworth ..
{| Charles P. Long
| Register:
Harry A. Rossman
Recorder:
Lloyd A. Stover
* Mac H. Hall
Steere esssannrseans
: © ssioners:’
| ~ Newton I. ilson ...
Harry W. Frantz .
| John A. Way .....
+ Howard M. Miles
Auditer:
J. B. Holter
R. D. Musser
Arteta scaset tantra
Servants easanevarsae
..—Now that the independent Re-
publicans of the county have express-
ed their resentment at one of their
would be bosses wouldnt it even
things up beautifully if they were to
show the other one where to get off.
——The Pittsburgh Pirates need
only to win all the games to be played
to secure the pennant. If Max Leslie
could do the counting that would be
easy.
——Come to think about it Gover-
nor Fisher didn’t fare much better
than Vare and Mellon in the recent
primary election.
——Hayving made all the trouble he
could among the airmen of Europe
By Levine is coming home aboard
ship..
Er ——— pe t—————
The Centre County Judicial Fight,
i
. Irom the Clearfield Republican.
Centre county’s bitterest judgship
: contest ended Tuesday night in the
nomination of M. Ward Fleming, of
Philipsburg, over James Furst, sit-
ting Judge, and Arthur Dale, former
Judge, both of Bellefonte, for the Re-
| publican Judgship nomination. Flem-
: ing’s plurality will be less than one
- thousand. Judge Furst is on the
bench by appointment of Governor
Fisher. He succeeded Judge Harry
Keller, who died suddenly last March.
He was backed by Secretary of For-
| ests and Waters Charles E. Dorworth,
: of Fisher’s cabinet, who conducteé the
Fisher fight for the nomination ' in
Centre county in 1926. Dorwn:th was
credited with having had Furst ap-
pointed by the Governor. Fleming an-
nounced his candidacy as soon as
Furst was appointed. The fight has
been hard and hot over since last
March ~ Each side brought every
force to play and the Furst peecple
were charged with employing every
possible State Administration asset
available. They were also charged
with dragging or getting neighboring
county people to lend a hand and so
forth. Fleming was backed by Sena-
tor Harry B. Scott, of Philipsburg.
Scott left nothing undone to boost
Fleming and was tireless in his efforts
to land the nomination for his close
friend. That the fight will leave big
splotches of bad blood all over Cen-
tre county goes without saying. They
cannot either be deodorized or remov-
ed by November 8th. W. Harrison
Walker, prominent attorney, who ran
| against Judge Keller and Arthur
| Dale two years ago, won the Demo-
cratic nomination. He is a clean, able
man, a good organizer and knows how
to run a clean, dignified get-there
campaign. The outlook is better than
just good for the election of W. Har-
rison Walker in November,
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYTSONE..
—The Schmitt House, condiicted by
members of the Schmitt family as a hotel
since 1880 and one of Altoona’s landmarlss,
.was sold last Friddy to Mrs. Clara J.
Hugh, of Philadelphia, owner of an ad-
joining property. She plans to raze the
hotel and erect a new building.
—Because a group of young men insist-
ed on finishing their night by singing
“Sweet Adeline,” and kept Alfred Bell, of
Shenandoah, from sleeping, Bell discharged
a shotgun at the group, wounding four of
the singers, Bell was placed in the Shen-
andoah jail, and faces a court trial for
aggravated assault and malicious shoot-
ing.
—The home of William R. Murhamer,
constable of Parnassus, was partly wreck-
ed by an explosion early on Saturday be-
lieved by state police to have been set off
by bootleggers in revenge for the officer's
activities against liquors. No one was in-
jured. Several other nearby homes were
damaged by the blast, which rocked the
neighborhood and shattered windows a
block away.
—Michael Billie, 48 years old, Drifton
minor, regarded as “queer” by neighbors
for years, and arrested frequently for dis-
orderly conduct, committed suicide by ex-
ploding two sticks of dynamite which he
had tied to the side of his head. Billie
sent his six motherless children, the old-
est only 16, to bed and then selected the
parlor for the scene of his death. The
room was wrecked by the blast.
—Thomas Sholl, 60, residing at the foot
of the mountain in Bald Eagle township,
near Mill Hall, committed suicide, last
Wednesday by shooting himself with a
shotgun. Sholl sent his wife to a neigh-
bor on an errand, and then went to the
second story of the house and fired the
shot through his head. He leaves a wid-
ow and three children, two of them twins
3 years old, and a daughter, 5 years old.
—While the building in which she was
working was being partly consumed by
fire early on Friday, Miss Sarah Mec-
Knight, telephone operator at the mining
village of Fairbanks, remained at her post
and notified fire departments of surround-
ing towns. As a result damage of $15000
was caused to the one building, formerly
occupied by the Fairbanks Supply Co., in-
stead of a much greater loss which might
have taken place.
—Josiah Haugh, 68, father of eight
children, was almost instantly killed when
pitched out of a buggy as he was round-
ing a curve on a country road near his
farm at Windsor, York conuty. Mrs. John
Leffler saw the empty buggy and the
horse passing her farmhouse. She called
her husband. They later found Haugh ly-
336 | ing along the road. Dr. J. C. Gable said
he had been killed almost instantly as
his skull had been fractured.
-—J. W. Bletz, of Tylersville, and son,
J. B. Bletz, 17, of the same place, were
fined $20 each for snaring fish illegally in
Fishing Creek last week, and $25 each for
fishing without ilcenses, when they enter-
1 | ed pleas of guilty to charges of violating
the fish laws before Alderman T. Mark
Brungard, of Lock Haven. They were ar-
rested by Fish Warden George W. Sper-
ring. A friend paid their fines, after they
| had spent a night in the Clinton county
PIA eee en
| —R. Bruce Dunlap, who has resigned
‘his Blair county farm agency position to
become agricultural adviser of the State
Welfare Department in Harrisburg, is one
of the original county farm agents placed
by State College throughout Pennsylvania.
He is a hard-working genial man who has
hundreds of friends among the farmers of
the State. His chief job will be to make
the farms attached to State institutions
more productive and to help any public
welfare agency that needs farm advice.
—The palatial residence of Mrs. William
Penn Snyder, of Pittsburgh, was looted
by a gang of boys, who sold $25,000 worth
of the furnishings to junkmen, it was dis-
closed in morals court on Saturday, when
three youths were called for a hearing.
The house was closed during the summer
months. The vandals jimmied a door and
carted away the furnishings in a push
cart. They wrecked a $15,000 pipe organ,
selling the metal as junk, and also ripped
costly chandeliers from the ceilings.
—Sara Young, aged 3, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ramsey Young, Renovo, died in
the Renovo hospital last Thursday of
burns covering her entire body and limbs,
sustained Wednesday afternoon when,
with several of her brothers and sisters,
she was playing with matches in the shed
at the rear of her home, and her clothing
became ignited. Her mother, hearing the
children’s screams, attempted to beat out
the flames and tear the burning clothing
from the child’s body. She was severely
burned. Besides her parents, five small
brothers and sisters survive.
—C. C. Gregory, about 40 years of age,
was crushed to death in the pumping ma-
chinery of his oil lease a few miles east
of Titusville some time Monday afternoon, '-
his lifeless body being found just after
dark by Alec Cole, 2 neighbor who went
to search for him when he did not return
for supper. One arm and one leg were
nearly torn off and the body was other-
wise mangled. It is believed that the man
was drawn into the machinery by having
his clothing caught in the cog wheels. The
scene of the accident is about a quarter
of a mile from the paved road.
—Trespassing on railroad property that
he might gather coal with which to fight
the cold of the coming winter, John Thom-
as Gordon, was instantly killed Saturday
afternoon by a westbound train at Maple-
ton. With a bucket in his hand the 68-
year-old man picked chunks of coal from
the - tracks, where. they lay after falling
from passing cars. He heard a train ap-
praching, stepped from No. 2 track, and
directly into the path of a westbound train
on No. 3 track. Several minutes later his
body mangled ‘and torn, already lifeless,
was picked up, too late for medical assist-
ance.
—The property of the Jefferson Trac-
tion company was sold at public sale on
Saturday to A. L. Light, coal operator of
Punxsutawney, for $30,500. The property
was recently appraised at a sum exceed-
ing $200,000. The rails, power equipment,
etc. are to be ‘junked as soon as court
confirmation of the sale gives Mr. Light
possession. ~The real estate, buildings,
ete, included in the purchase, will be
offered for resale. The purchase includes
all the real estate and physical equipment,
of the company, which for years has oper-
ated a street car line in that city and be-
tween Punxsutawney and Reynoldsville.