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Prworiicipatdm 1 Le he who walked into Judge Sylvester J.
~~ 4 | Snee's private chambers, took the judge's
SN TTT TTT | overcoat valued at $75 and departed, leav-
INK SLINGS. "ing his own coat.
n : —Mary Ellen, infant daughter of Mr.
——There were some ‘vacan
chairs” at the Republican caucus in
Harrishurg, the other evening. Some
of those entitled to seats are in jail.
—As for the new year we are hop-
ing it holds nothing worse in store for
us than the old one had and as for you
we are wishing that it may have a
million times more of the joy of living
than we got out of it. And that —we
should say—is some good wish for
you.
—Sir Geoffrey Butler, English law-
yer and member of Parliament, says
he is appalled at the amount of
drunkenness he has seen since coming
to the U. S. A. Sir Geoffrey has yet to
learn, it seems, that sobriety in dry
countries can’t be measured by wet
country standards.
—Probably few of you will be in-
terested in the announcement that
twenty-three thousand new million-
aires have been created in the United
States since 1914. We feel it our
duty, however, to keep you exactly in-
formed in such matters so we pause
to inform you that we are not among
the noveau rich.
—In two months Calvin Coolidge
will have his public fade out. Of
course historians will quibble about
his greatness as President of the
United States and we shall not raise
issue with any of them. We prefer to
remember him as the President who
fished for trout with worms and stalk.
ed doe deer with a doubled barreled
shot gun.
—Many a time during the New Year
you will probably have arguments
as to the time certain important
events happened during 1928. There-
fore we suggest that you preserve
page six of this issue of the Watch-
man. All of the memorable happen-
ings of the old year are reported there
and it will be a very handy sheet to
lay away for reference.
—The loose manner in which we. of-
ten express ourselves was splendidly
illustrated by a very demure lady, on
Tuesday, when she told us that a mu-
tual friend, who happens to be a very
reputable widower of the town, “is in
bed with a nurse.” We just had to
laugh and the good woman doubtless
thinks us a very heartless person, be-
cause we know she didn’t realize what
she had said.
—In the Norris case Judge Kirk-
patrick has ruled that it is not unlaw-
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JANUARY 4. 1929.
NO. 1.
Hyprocrisy Wins by Narrow Margin |
As predicted in our last issue Sena- |
tor Bruce’s amendment to the post-
office appropriation bill, allocating
$300,000,000 for enforcement of the
Volstead law was stricken out of the
measure by the conference committee.
The Anti-Saloon League and all other
prohibitionists for revenue and poli-
tics were bitterly opposed to so large
an appropriation for that purpose. It
might accomplish the result, which
would not only put the high-salaried
prohibitionists out of their jobs but
would deprive the political prohibi-
tionists of an effective smoke-screen
to deceive the too credulous voters.
But they saved themselves by a nar-
row margin. The vote in the Senate
on the motion to adopt the conference
report was very close.
In a signed statement giving his
reasons for offering his amendment
Senator Bruce said that when Mr.
Doran, federal prohibition commis-
sioner, stated to a Congressional com-
mittee that it would require that
amount of money to enforce the Vol-
stead law, he determined to supply
the money if possible. He was “ac-
tuated by the wish to ascertain how
far the Anti-Saloon League and sin-
cere drys in Congress were willing to
incur the political hazards of impos-
ing upon the federal taxpayers the
enormous pecuniary burden which
Mr. Doran says is indispensible to the
effective enforcement of prohibition,
and how far the drys in Congress, who
are wet in practice, were willing to
junite in a generous appropriation
which might make it more difficult to
harmonize a dry tongue with a wet
throat.”
The proceeding that followed the
adoption of the Bruce amendment by
the Senate was unique in the history
of legislation. The Republican Sen-
ators allowed it to pass in full expec-
tation that the House conferees would
strike it out. But the House conferees
were disposed to disappoint that hope.
Then the Senate conferees, who were
ful to buy booze from a boot-legger, | in honor bound to support the action
but when you have him deliver it to | of the Senate, begged for adverse
you you are guilty of conspiracy to !action on the part of the House, and
transport the stuff. In other
the law admits that it is impotent to
prevent you from going to the source
of supply, making your purchase and
carrying it home yourself, unless it
detects you in the act of transporting
it.
—Right at the start of the New
Year we are beset with a lot of wor-
ries that ought to be on other should-
ers. Here we have the Post Office De-
partment asking for bids for rooms to
house the local postoffice for a period
of five years when, some four or five
years ago, a bill went through Con-
gress authorizing the erection of a
federal building in Bellefonte for that
purpose. We've always been worrying
for somebody else and this time it hap-
pens to be “Mitch” Chase, our dapper
Congressman. He's the fellow who
ought to be working out this problem,
but it'll probably not come into his
mind until early in the fall of 1930 and
then the new five year lease will have
been signed and Bellefonte will be out
of a chance for a public building until
1935.
—To those of you who helped us
make a real Christmas for Wesley we
want to say that our only regret is
that you could not have been here
when we made the presentation of
your gifts. Accustomed to nothing
more than the crumbs from the rich
man’s table he was so overwhelmed at
the thought that so many of you
thought of him that tears trickled
down his cheeks, his voice faltered
and he bowed his head until he could
recover his composure enough to say:
“I never knew I had so many friends.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if Christ-
mas came once a month.” In all there
was twenty-two dollars and seventy-
five cents and a.big fat hen in the
stocking you filled for Wesley and
next week we shall publish the names
of his friends, together with several
of the letters that came.
—A wierd play in the University of
California-Georgia Tech foot-bail
game at Pasadena, on New Year's
day, is being talked off as the most
notable bone-head ever pulled on a
grid-iron. Captain-elect Reigels of
the California team gathered up a
loose ball and ran seventy yards to-
wards his own goal line before he was
aware that he was going the wrong
way. The blunder really resulted
in the defeat of his team, but
it was mot the first notorious
foot-ball faux pas. Some years
ago a Penn State player got through
the Yale line up at New Haven and
was galloping over a clear field to the
Yale goal with what would have been
the winning count for State. Be-
cause there was no other player near
him he suddenly became obsessed with
the idea that he was going the wrong
way, so he turned around and ran
right back into the arms of the pur-
suing opponents.
words, upon the plea that it was necessary to
”»
“save the party” finally prevailed.
The House eomnmittee moved to strike
out and the Senate representatives
concurred. Then the House adopted
the report which, after a spirited de-
bate and a roll-call, was ‘concurred in
by a majority of three in the Senate.
——Somebody over in England has
invented a motor vehicle that can be
folded up and kept in a house closet.
This is a step in the direction of solv-
ing the parking problem.
-
The Power Trust Wins.
The Senate committee to which the
nomination of Roy O. West to be
Secretary of the Interior was com-
mitted has voted to report in favor of
confirmation, three Democratic Sena-
tors, Ashurst, of Arizona; Pitman, of
Nevada, and Kendrick, of Wyoming,
having joined with the Republicans in
producing that result, This is the
more surprising because Mr. West's
record as a corporation lawyer and
his long continued affiliation with the
Power trust and utility corporations
had been laid open before the com-
mittee. Senator Norris, of Nebras-
ka, had presented every detail of Mr.
West’s relations with Samuel Insull,
both as counsel and partner and ‘fo
make him a member of the Federal
Power Commission is inexplicable.
One would think there had been
enough scandals in the Department of
the Interior within the last ten years
to make the Senators careful in se-
lecting a Secretary. Albert B. Fall
conveyed to corporaions controlled by
Doheny and Sinclair oil properties of
the government of the vaiue uv. sun-
dreds of millions of dollars and after
the courts had denounced these trans-
actions as fraudulent and therefore
void, his successor in office, Hurbert
Work, now chairman of the Republi-
can National Committee, renewed one
of the leases with Sinclair at a cost
to the government of at least $1000
a day. Curiously enough this last
outrage concerns a property in Wy-
oming, Senator Kendrick’s home.
During the consideration of his
nomination Mr. West voluteered a
pledge that in the event of his con-
firmation he would take no part in
the deliberations of the Federal Pow-
er Commission when questions in-
volving claims of Samuel Insull were
under consideration, That was a poor
plea for approval. With the commis-
sion packed in the interest of the
Power trust it wouldn’t be necessary
for the Secretary of the Interior to
favor the trust. But it is the duty of
the Secretary to act in the interest of
the government against the schemes
of the trust and Mr. West has not
promised that and would be incapable
of fulfilling such a promise if it had
heen made. His allegiance is to In-
sull.
General Assembly of 1929.
The organization of the General
Assembly of Pennsylvania for the
session of 1929 presented the politi-
cal machine to public view in per-
fect form. Caucusses were held as
a matter of form. But they simply
ratified the actions previously taken
at a conference, in the executive man-
sion, in which W. A. Mellon, Joe
Grundy and Governor Fisher partici-
pated. Senator Schantz, of Lehigh
county, was named as President Pro
Tem. of the Senate and Representa-
tive Hess, of Lancaster, as Speaker
of the House. There was no opposi-
tion to either or to anything else. All
motions were made by persons desig-
nated for the purpose by the big
bosses and the vote in every instance
was unanimous.
The session began at noon, on
Tuesday, and was as “cut and dried”
as the proceedings of the caucusses.
The twenty-six newly elected Sena-
tors were sworn in by Judge Fox, of
Harrisburg, who had previously serv-
ed in the Senate and the Representa-
tives were qualified by Judge Wicker-
sham, of Harrisburg, who had seen
service in that chamber. The cus-
tomary and somewhat perfunctory in-
vocations were offered by local clergy-
men and a joint session was held to
count the votes of the recent election.
This purpose completed separate ses-
sions were resumed, a resolution
agreed upon by the boss conference to
adjourn finally on April 18th was
adopted, Governor. Fisher read his
message and the body adjourned to
meet on January 14th, when the
standing committees will be announc-
ed.
The machine methods of the organ-
ization afford little inspiration for
hope of beneficent legislation during
the session. The treasury surplus,
which State Treasurer Lewis now es-
timates at $35,000,000, appeals to the
Vanishing Landmarks.
With the passing of W.L. Foster, at
State College, another of the few re-
maining links that connect the great
institution of today with the strug-
gling little college of half a century
ago, is broken. Our first memory of
him runs back into the early eighties
when, as a boy, we saw him in a
shooting match on the old Centre
county fair grounds at Coleville. We
marveled at the accuracy of his
marksmanship and the ease with
which he handled a gun, though hav-
ing but one arm. It seemed no handi-
cap to him, however, and he got much
out of sports of all kinds. In those
days the Fosters, the Mitchells, the
Stuarts, the Hunters, the elder Dr.
Glenns, the Gibsons, the Baileys, the
Krumrines and the Neidighs repre-
sented about all there was to the vil-
lage of State College proper, because
what
borough was
and there was not much contact be-
tween the settlements. Mr. Foster
was a young business man of State
College then and was continuously
identified with the growth of the town
up to the moment that ill health fore-
ed his retirement only a short time
ago.
Often we wonder why communities
change without giving thought to the
answer that is right before us to end
the wonderment. Just look at the
register of deaths on page four of this
issue of the Watchman. Name after
name of your friends and ours, who
have slipped away is there. Many of
them just as conspicuous in their
communities as Mr. Foster wag in his.
"And in many cases those who will
cupidity of Senators and Representa-
tives alike and the grabbing opera-
tions may create some excitement. It
is practically certain that enabling
legislation to make the voting ma-
chine constitutional amendment effec-
tive will be enacted but beyond that
there is not likely to be any substan-
tial reforms. The bosses are well
satisfied with present conditions.
They are in absolute control. Quay
never had such “easy pickirg” and
Penrose was a “piker.”
ae
Mr. Vare’s last word to his
legislative servants was that it should
be “held intact as a group.”
Mr. Hoover’s Changed Programme.
The break in President-elect Hoov-
er’s plans for the period of time until
the date of his inauguration has
created a great deal of mental spec-
ulation among the politicians
take up their torches will be compara-
tive strangers. At least persons with
whom it is too late for we of the
is now the east end of that
known as Sauerstown '
Pennsylvania and the Summer White
House.
From the Seranton Times.
When President Coolidge
asked the support of the newspapers
of the country in gaining the in-
fluence of public opinion for the es- !
White
tablishment of a Summer
House for his successors, he started
something. It will be remembered
that he pointed out the desirability of |
such a White House close enough to :
Washington that it might serve not
only as a summer residence, but a
place to which the President and the
First Lady might run away occasion-
ally.
The subject has been taken up by
the press, by Congress, and by many
localities with suitable sites to sug-
gest. Now the grand old Keystone
State comes forward with its offer,
and at a place most suitable. It is at
Buena Vista, on the heights overlook-
ing Waynesboro, just north of the
Maryland Line.
A high escarpment, wooded by
giant trees of primeval growth, sur-
mounted by a level space of grassy
sward and forest vistas, where a big
“hotel and several residences have taken
advantage of the elevation and a
broad view almost without compare—
such is Buena Vista. It was named
by the widow of the Mexican hero,
, Iturbide, who, after her husband’s un-
other generation to form friendships
like those that are so frequently be-
ing broken now.
It is but the natural sequence of
years slip by the mortality rate ad-
vances and we notice it the more be-
cause all about us friends are falling
who can never be replaced.
d¥’s a sad vision to contemplate.
Hagder still is the realization that it
will steadily grow worse until our
in.
Washington and throughout the coun-
try. In the first place his tour of the
Southern Republies has been curtailed
and his purpose to isolate himself on
some remote island on the coast of
Florida during the winter months
practically abandoned. He is now
heading under full steam for Wash-
ington where he will spend ten days
in personal touch with current events.
There are reasons for this change in
his programme, of course, but they
have not been revealed and conjecture
has been running wild concerning
them.
One usually well-informed Wash-
ington correspondent ascribes it to
the attitude of Senator Borah on the
question of an extra session of Con-
gress immediately after the inaugura-
tion, as Mr. Hoover promised in one
of his campaign speeches. The
pledge was conditional upon the fail-
ure of the present Congress to enact
farm relief legislation satisfactory to
the farmers. The bill which it is pro-
posed to enact is not likely to be sat-
isfactory, but the party leaders hold
that any legislation in that direction
will absolve Hoover from his obliga-
tion in the matter. Borah, who in-
duced Hoover to make the pledge, and
he feels personally responsible for its
fulfillment, insists on the extra ses-
sion.
There are other vexed questions
disturbing the minds of the party
managers which may have had some-
thing to do with Mr. Hoover’s change
of programme. The differences be-
tween the supporters of the Kellogg
peace pact and those who are backing
the naval building enterprise have
reached an acute stage and both are
trying to inveigle Hoover into the
controversy. It is also suspected that
certain leaders were organizing trad-
ing posts and making embarassing
bargains in relation to the public
patronage which Hoover might be
compelled to ratify in the future, and
it is probable that his unexpected re-
turn to Washington is to put a stop
to that sort of commercialism,
——The grab game to get that
$35,000,000 surplus is now on.
generation has gone and a new one
takes up the burden of carrying on.
Can we not then say that commun-
ities are not changing. Its only the
people. Will Bellefonte, State Coi-
lege or any other place be changed
more when the last of our generation
is gone than they were when we fol-
lowed the last of the one that preced-
ed us to the cemetery?
Our distinguished friend Al
Smith has also enlisted in the army
of the “unemployed.”
- ——eeeee.
Trickery That Ought to Fail.
If it were not obvious that Mr. Vare
is “sparring for delay” the letter of
his physicians to the chairman of the
Slush Fund committee of the Senate
would put the chairman of that com-
mittee up against a hard proposition.
‘They present the record of his in-
timely death in 1824, came to the
height above Waynesboro to spend
the rest of her life.
Since Pennsylvania has so suitable
a place for the Summer White House
the historic antecedents of this grand
old Commonwealth, where the Deec-
laration of the Independence was
signed, where the Constitution was
framed, where the Gettysburg ad-
dress was delivered hardly more than
a few “stone throws” from Waynes-
boro, the claims of Pennsylvania to
the Summer White House should car-
ry much weight.
eee presen.
Uncle Sam Should Be Wary of Being
Too Helpful.
, From the Philadelphia Record.
the march to journey’s end. As the
“child dreads
in concert with the other countries. |
Once bitten, twice shy—the burnt
the fire—such crude
maxims perhaps have not occurred to
the Adminstration at Washington, but
the primitive logic they express
seems to govern certain decisions,
nevertheless. '
On the board which is to be created
to mediate the boundary clash be-
tween Bolivia and Paraguay those
countries will name two members
cach, and five will be selected from
other American nations. It is expect-
ed that the United States will be ask-
ed to appoint one.
But it is intimated strongly that
while the Government “would not
shirk its duty,” if the request were
made, it will insist upon acting only
Furthermore, it will do its utmost to
prevent the elevation of the American
representative to the chairmanship or
any post imputing to him the func-
firmity in persuasive language and 81
By ig would inevitably lead to criticism.
convincing form. But there are inci-
dents, omitted from the narrative,
which suggest insincerity. For ex-
ample, they assume that his partici-
pation in the Kansas City convention
tions of a referee.
This cautious attitude
by common sense and experience.
The Latin-American Governments |
most earnest de- |
might profess the
sire to have this nation assume the
leadership in promoting a settlement;
but it is notorious that they do not!
relish a “big brother” attitude on the
part of the United States, and no
matter what the decision might be it!
History furnishes a warning even
more weighty than the fiasco of Pres-
ident Coolidge’s arbitration of the
, quarrel between Chile and Peru over
in June was responsible for his afflic- :
tion in August. That may or may not
be true but in any event it is hardly
sufficient reason for further delay in
the determination of a matter already
too long drawn out by evasiveness.
When Senator Dave Reed, of Pitts-
burgh, organized a filibuster in the
Senate a year ago his purpose was to
{
Tacna-Arica. Fifty years ago Presi-
dent Hayes was induced to arbitrate
the claims of Bolivia and Peru to the
very territory now in dispute, and his
i award is one of the things over which !
they are still wrangling.
Many Road Bills in Offing.
‘From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
postpone the determination of the!
question of Mr. Vare’s title to seat in
that body. When the powers of the
courts were invoked to retard the in-
vestigation the same purpose was ex-
pressed. When Mr. Vare was invited
vious to the assembling of the Na-
tional convention he failed to acknowl-
edge the courtesy for the same rea-
son. These facts prove that physical
infirmities have not been directly or
indirectly responsible for Mr. Vare’s
failure to present his case to the com-
mittee. He has had ample opportu-
nity but wilfully failed to do so.
Mr. Vare atempted to acquire a
seat in the United States Senate by
purchase of votes in violation of law
and by frauds equally obnoxious to
political morals. The exposure of his
methods defeated his expectations for
a time. Ever since he has been try-
ing to break in by one unlawful ex-
pedient or another without success.
Now he hopes that through an in-
creased Republican majority in the
Senate and a tightening of party lines
he will be able to realize his ambition
if he can delay final action until the
assembling of the next Congress,
whether it be in extra or regular ses-
sion. The purpose of the letter of his
physicians to chairman Reed is to
further this scheme. It ought to fail.
The number of bills to be present-
ed at the session of the Legislature
which convened today will be larger
than ever before in the estimation of
officials of House and Senate who
have some advance knowledge of what
y legislators have in mind.
to appear before the committee pre- !
Nothing would please the Admin-
istration more than to be relieved
of adding further to the road sys-
tem of the State. But by far the
larger number of bills now ready for
presentation are for just such addi-
tions. Even those who present road
bills for the most part would be glad
if some all-powerful influence would
turn thumbs down on all of them,
{ for a majority come with from two to
a half-dozen to be presented on re-
quest, knowing full well that they
cannot get all of them through and
may get none. In either case they
will have to answer to the folks
back home who will compare their
results with those of neighboring
legislators, to the embarrassment of
all concerned. This condition arose
last session and for a time an effort
was made to stem the tide. Finally
an agreement was reluctantly reach-
ed to add 600 miles in an omnibus
bill. But when it came to the Gov-
ernor it included twice that mileage,
and at that nobody was satisfied.
Twice as many road bills are in the
making, it is estimatea, as were sub-
mitted two years ago.
—>Subscribe for the Watchman.
recently '
is dictated
‘and Mrs. Gordon P. Barth, of Hazleton,
| can claim quite a record in the coal re-
{ gions, having five grandmothers. The
mothers of both her parents, their grand-
mothers and the great-grand-mother of
her mother are living and reside near the
Barth home.
—After ninety years continuous opera-
tion the Thompson Brothers Knitting
: Mills, of Milroy and Lewistown closed
j their doors Tuesday. Three generations of
the Thompsons played an important part
in this industry. Hosiery was their chief
product, although at one time they did in-
finde blankets and other woolen goods.
1 —G. H., Qustin, of Lock Haven, State
game protector, arrested Ira Bittner, of
Beech Creek, R. D., after a search of his
premises revealed a part of a deer head
and some venison. He was charged with
killing a deer out of season and with trans-
porting as illegally killed deer, and paid
total of $150 fines and costs in the two
cases.
—Suffering from a severe gash in her
leg, painful body bruises and shock, Mrs.
: Bdward Hunsicker, of Allentown, is under
the care of her physisian, Dr. Warren Pet-
ers, and the husband is under arrest
‘ charged with throwing his wife out of a
| second-story window of their home. The
woman landed on a sloping roof and roll-
ed off.
—Stabbed in the back by his 11-year-old
playmate, Walter Hagen, the 14-year-old
+ son of W. I. Hagen, of Beech Creek, is in
'a critical condition in the Lock Haven
i hospital. Hagen and his companion, Paul
| Waite, son of Harry Waite, were on their
[way home from school when they became
engaged in a quarrel and the stabbing fol-
i lowed,
—Cook forest, containing approximately
8,000 acres in Forest, Clarion and Jeffer-
| son counties, is now in possession of the
Stare. Charles E. Dorworth, secretary of
. forests and waters, announced last Friday
; the formal purchase of this tract of virgin
"white pine and hemlock. The price paid
f was $650,000, £250,000 of vhich was raised
by private subseription.
—James Walter Paugh, of Detroit, was
killed and his parents and two other per-
j sons were injureed on Friday when their
i automobile was struck by a Philadelphia-
| Pittsburgh bus on the Lincoln highway
i mear Bedford. The Paugh machine had
i been stopped and chains were being placed
on the wheels when the bus crashed into
it. Mrs. Louise Paugh and Mrs. Elmer
Smith were taken to the Somersct Hospi-
tal. They were burned when the wrecked
machine caught fire.
—Ralph L. Hampton, former sheriff of
Chester county, in whose accounts a short-
age of about $25,000 was shown by an
audit and who was convicted on a charge
of embezzlement, was sentenced to serve
from two to four years in the Fastern
penitentiary. Sentence was imposed by
Judge Henry C. Niles, of York county.
Defense counsel was allowed 10 days in
| which to file an appeal and the former
; Sheriff was released under £5,000 bail
pending such action.
—When Robert Barger, 4 year old son of
| Mrs. Andrew Barger, of Howard, fell at
! his home while pushing a kiddie car about,
(he sas thought to have sustained a frac-
i ture of the home of the leg as ke was un-
{able to walk, but when he was taken to
| the office of Dr. G. D. Mervine, at Lock
| Haven, Thursday night, the X-ray photo-
{ graph disclosed that a4 large darning nee-
idle Lad penetrated the kneecap and the
| knee joint, and when it was removed the
i boy was able to walk and was removed to
i his home.
—Newspaper photographers wad tele-
i graph operators will no. Se permitted in
| the York county court Louse next weock
{| during the trial of three alleged witch-
i craft murderers, John Blymyer, Wilbert
G. Hess and John Curry. This announce-
tment was made on Tuesday by Judge
denry C. Niles when he appeared befove
the County Commissioners, and asked that
, additional tipstaves be cmployed to handle
i the crowds expected at the trial of the
men who are alleged to have killed Nel-
son D. Rehmexer, 60 year old farmer, to
get a lock of his hair to bury and break a
spell.
—TFinal preparations for putting the new
blast furnace at the Steelton plant of the
Jethlehem Steel company in operation
were begun last week. A fire for the pur-
pose of drying out the furnace has been
started. The furnace will be dried for
about a month before actual production
will be started. The new furnace, which
is the largest in the world, will put out
900 tons of pig iron a day. The two fur-
naces now in operation at the plant have a
capacity of 500 tons each. When these
furnaces are pushed hard it is possible to
get 700 tons of pig iron in twenty-four
hours.
—The attack on the life of Mrs. Dale
Spaid, 24 years old, of Troxellvile, Mifflin
county, remains an unsolved mystery, al-
though the police placed the usual dragnet
about the community. It is believed by
local residents that the attack came from
some unknown enemy either in Troxellville
or near-by. An unknown man is alleged
to have attacked her, beating her with fists
tearing at her face with his nails and used
a knife. Twenty-four lacerations and
abrasions were found on her arms, neck
and face. The wounds resemble more the
marks of a small rake used by florist. The
husband was in an upstairs room dressing
when the attack was made, but running
out he grasped a gun and fired into dark-
ness in the direction the assailant ran.
—The reflex action of the strong arm of
ens. Nesbit is accused of being a member
constable of Warrington township, York
county, who has been arrested by detective
Jesse Crabbs on a charge of stealing chick-
ens, Nesbit is accused of being a memebr
of a ring of chicken thieves that has op-
erated in the upper end of York county
over a period of weeks preceding the
Christmas holidays. With him has been
taken into custody Cleason Rife, of Wash-
ington township; Clair Rife and William
Moul. The prosecutor in the case agains
the defendants are Jesse Sponseller and
Russell Moody. On the farm of the elder
Rife the officer recovered more than 100 of
the alleged stolen chickens. The Rifes
and Moul were able to furnish bail for a
hearing before Justice of the Peace Lewis
D. Sell.