—The ideal town councilman is the
one who does for nothing what no-
body else would do for a million dol-
lars...
. —Burgess Harris must have had
his tail lights off or that Cowher lad
could never have - driven his yel-
Jow Packard as close as he did.
—The Vare crowd in Philadelphia.
certainly showed Mayor Mackey
where to get off. What he probably
needs now is to be shown where to’
gO. :
-—Anyway, Mr. Orian A. Kline,
who aspires to be tax collector of
Bellefonte, can never say that a wo-
man hasn't made him step pretty
lively.
—We hope we. are spared until
1937. We'd like to be around then to
see Judge Fleming meet the shirt
sleeved army that’s going to rise up
to smite him.
—The longer we are permitted to
exist in ‘this enlightened age the
more we become convinced that most
everybody wants to help somebody
else because he sees a chance to help
himself thereby.
"—Inasmuch as the returns clearly
indicate that the Fleming forcés
supported Dale for district attorney
we rise to remark that Love owes his
nomination to the influence of the
Dorworth faction in the county.
—We had just started counting the
days until the trout season opens
again when we remembered that
there is another job that must be
completed before that one is started.
[t is just ninety-five days until
Christmas. :
—Of course we do not intend to
convey the impression that there
was intentional dereliction in the re-
turns recorded on the tally sheet of
‘he North ward of Bellefonte, but
we do know that a vote that was
solled there on Tuesday does not ap-
sear on it. ’
—Who said the old gray mare of
ancient political history in the West
ward of Bellefonte “ain't what she
1sed to be.” We can just see Har-
non Kruse gallopin’ up Howard
itreet on her, the first Monday morn-
ng in January, 1930, to be sworn in
\S ‘a councilman.
—Prof. J. Willard Horsey, who
yccupies a chair on the faculty of
vicPherson college, Kansas, claims
hat he can make perfect diamonds
wut of pure table sugar. The an-
jouncment rather frightens us. If
liamonds can be produced as cheaply
18-his process would indicate we
hink we shall sell ours.
ar as PHllp J
or District Attorney is. concerned.
“here is one clean, capable young
nan for .whom anyone could vote
vithout fear of having made a mis-
ake. Nobody has anything on Philip
nd he has a lot that makes us be-
ieve that he is just the person needed
it this time to fill the office he has
een named for.
—Friend Bill Fielding has sent us
. picture of a garden in Newport,
t I, and advises that instead of
acationing in Canada we stay in the
7.8. A. and see really beautiful
hings. We'll admit that the Ber-
rind estate at Newport is some
lace, but there comes times when
ne longs to linger at the side of
ountains that squirt Something
10re potential than H20.
—1It is said that Col. Bill Rothrock
lumb fined himself out of arenom-
iation for Mayor of State College.
ince he was defeated by a gentle-
1an who claims only a sleeping resi-
ence inthe town we hate to think
rhat would have happened te Col.
ill had some one with a full time
it in State College been ambitious
> have his name painted on that
oor in the public building up there.
-—In order to relieve embarrassment
1 the future we would suggest that
1e County Commissioners procure a
abinet for the lobby of the court
ouse and keep it filled with coats so
1at there will be one in readiness
or hapless, shirt-sleeved individuals
‘ho might want to witness what is
oing on. in court. The coats could
2 bought at the next rummage sale,
> they wouldn't cost the county
wich. The Masons, you know, have
stock of silk hats on hand for such
nergencies as funerals and we know
1at Mark Landsy wouldn't look any
1nnier going into court in a coat
>hn Knisely had sent to the rum-
age sale than some of the Masons
3 in tiles of the vintage of ’59.
—The mystery of who struck mer-
want John P. Eckel promises to be-
me as great a one as that of who
ruck Billy Patterson. John knows
3 was struck. He also knows that
ir twenty-four hundred dollar coun-
r detective was the only person
ose enough to him to have deliver-
1 the blow, yet a Centre county
and jury evidently thought John
as only dreaming for it ignored his
11, which is tantamount to saying
oden didn’t strike him. John might
we come to the conclusion, finally,
at it was all a dream but he has
ceived a bill for fifty-seven dollars
1d sixty-nine cents costs and that’s
) dream. He's sore. Terribly sore.
1e only consolation we have to of-
r is the satisfaction that he might
it out of the discovery that it costs
oney to have a high priced peace
‘Acer poke you in the face.
of luck sp. | 2
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL unio.
“VOL. £7
“BELLEFONTE. PA. SEPTEMBER 20. « 1929.
High Priced 1 and Short Lived Victory.
By appealing to party prejudice
and personal cupidity, Senator Wat-
son, Republican floor leader of the
Senate. succeeded the other day in
postponing the vote on Senator Nor-
ris’ resolution to declare William S.
Vare not entitled to the seat to
which he was fraudulently returned
as elected in 1926. The pretense
upon which the postponement was
asked was that consideration of the
resolution would retard action on the
tariff bill and five Democrats, who
expect to derive benefits from that
atrocious legislation wete stupid
enough to fall for the fraud. As a
matter of fact the Norris resolution
might have been disposed of at a
single session of the Senate without
great interference with other legisla-
tion.
Senator Reed, of Pittsburgh, who
during the primary campaign of 1926
publicly declared that Vare is an
ignoramus utterly incapable of ren-
dering Senatorial service, urged
postponement on the ground that the
Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections which investigated the con-
test of William B. Wilson against
Vare has not made its report. The
work of the Committee on Privileges
and Elections had nothing to do with
the charges upon which the Slush
Fund committee reported against
Vare, which was the subject of the
Norris resolution. The offences
charged against Vare were commit-
ted at the primary election and the
elections committee investigated the
general election.
clear.
But the partisan Republicans and
the stupid and selfish Democrats
who voted with them, postponed the
vote until December 3rd. It was a
| temporary victory for bigotry and
greéd but may turn out a disaster.
The Slush Fund ~ committee has
made its report but it has not been
dissolved and may take additional
evidence, now available. which will
be disastrous to Vare. In other
words, the evidence which Tom
Cunningham refused to divulge may
now be obtained from other sources
and show that a.
speakeasy
keepers and criminals of other types.
in consideration of future protec-
tion in their nefarious operations.
Thus it may be a costly victory.
uted by ‘bootleggers,
——An esteemed contemporary
complains that President Hoover
“does not sufficiently trust Con-
gress.” In the face of the record any
trust of Congress is more than suffi- |
cient.
Senator Borah’s Tariff Ideas.
Senator Borah, “as “as spokesman for
‘the Republican independent. group”
in the Senate, the other day, de-
clard that the tariff bill “is far cut
of line with the pledges made to
agriculture” by the Republican party.
It “is not executed,” he added, “in
justice to the agricultural interest.
Some of us believe that the time is
at hand when agriculture must take
a stand if it is to benefit- from the
protective tariff system.” That
would be fine if it meant anything.
But it doesn't.
possesses the faculty of reasoning
knows agriculture can derive no ben-
efit from tariff taxation.
The tariff act of 1922 assumed to
protect agriculture. It levied a tax
on a few products of the farm but
as there is practically no importa-
tions of farm products it afforded no
help while the increased rates on the
commodities the farmers have to buy
made it work a positive harm to
them. The pending bill aggravates
this evil. It increases the number of
taxed products and enhances the
rates on others but it increases the
levy on the commodities they have
to buy at a ratio of five or ten to
one. If it’s tails the farmer loses and
if it’s heads the manufacturers win.
The farmer “gets it in the neck com-
ing or going.”
The only way agriculture can de-
rive “any benefit from the tariff sys-
tem” is to procure a law which will
levy tariff taxes ‘for revenue only.”
Such an-act would vastly increase
the tariff revenue and thus relieve
the farmer of some of the tax bur-
dens which are at present, breaking
his back and decrease the prices on
articles essential to farm operation
which are at present. breaking his
spirit. Senator Borah ought to know
this and probably does but he is so
completely under the influence of
party prejudice that while he speaks
fair in the Senate "he acts false at
the bollot box.
——The 1929 pennant has been
handed over to the Athletics and
Philadelphia is getting ready to &p-
propriately ‘honor the engineer of the
enterprise, the Hon. Cornelius Mc-
Gillicuddy:. !
That is absolutely
[Tapa and Australia came from
same source that influenced Congréss |, be fairly apportioned.
Every farmer who
NO. 37.
EE —
Complication in the Parity Dispute. | Lobby Tavestigation Progressing. LOVE BEATS DALE FOR
A new complication has developed |
in the consideration of the question
of naval parity. The Washington
conference of 1922 fixed a_ratio of 5-
5-3 as to Great Britain, the United his
States and Japan. Now Japan de-
mands a ratio of 31% to 5-5 and de-
clares that if the United States builds
fifteen new cruisers as authorized
by Congress, she will feel obliged to
do some additional building in order
to hold up her end. Then Australia
protests to the London government
that her safety is jeopardized by an
increase in the naval strength of
Japan. President Hoover wants to
cut down the building programme in
this country and seems to have stag.
ed an attack on the naval personnel
to promote his scheme. i
The Senate in Washington has
promptly responded to President
Hoover's complaint that an organiz-
"ed lobby has béen interfering with
efforts in the direction of de-
creasing the naval force. The com-
mittee on Naval affairs has begun an
investigation and will probably do
what it can to expose the facts. The
committee may not be very enthusi-
astic in the search, but it will prob-
bably be able to uncover a “goat,”
and information from Washington
indicates that somebody may be
prosecuted for treason. It is diffi-
cult to imagine how this may be
brought about. In this country trea- |
son is limited to the “actual levying |
of war against the country - or giv-
‘ing aid to enemies engaged in war.”
| The British naval strength isvast- i It appears that William B. Shear-
ly above the 5-5 ratio now and the
British admiralty insists on keeping .
it that way. But a considerable dis-
parity would exist even if no more
British ships were built and the fif-
teen cruisers were added to our
equipment. Therefore the" strong
navy element in Congress insists on
carrying out the building programme
as expressed in the act authorizing
the new cruisers. There is a re-
mote ‘possibility that a satisfactory
agreement might have been made
between this country - and England
if Japan had not butted in with her
demand. The MacDonald govern-
ment cannot safely ignore the peril
to Australia involved and thus the
question is immersed in confusion.
There are coaflicting reports con-
, cerning Premier MacDonald's propos-
_ed visit to Washington for a heart-
to-heart talk with President Hoover
on the subject. Being a Quaker it
is easy to imagine that Mr. Hoover
is anxious to decrease all navies. He
is not credulous enough to accept
the idea that big navies make for
peace. No matter how big the navy
war with all the expense and suffer-
ing it entails. And so long as ship-
building corporations contribute to
to add fifteen cruisers.
— Tickets to the world series
games in Philadelphia will come high
but they will be worth the price.
Tariff Penalties on Women.
The proposed increase in tariff
rates will affect all consumers ad-
versely, if the bill is enacted into
law, but even a casual examination
| of the provisions of the ‘measure
compels the impression that the real
purpose of the measure was to pun-
ish the women. There are vast in-
creases in the metal ‘schedules but
as Joe Grundy is said to have dic-
tated these it is not surprising. But
the greatest increases are in house-
hold necessities and curiously enough
on the cheaper grades, making them
particularly obnoxious to persons of
limited means. However this is an-
other characteristic of Republican
reasoning. The heaviest burdens are
laid upon those least able to bear
them.
An expert writing on this phase of
the bill says “the textile schedules
are filled with jokers on the public.”
That is the rates are expressed in
technical phrases “not intelligible to
non-technical readers except after re-
search and inquiry. An illustration
is the provision in the cotton manu-
factures schedule changing the basis
of assessment from a straight ad
valorem “percentage to a graduated
scale based on the number of picks
per inch.” This change applies to
figured tapistries used as table cov-
ers, mantel and bureau scarfs, bath
robes and an inferior grade of blan-
kets. Of course the average woman
making use of these fabrics doesn’t
know how many picks there are to
the inch.
Cotton blankets are also made the
subject of enormous increases. A
provision is that “in no case shall
the duty be less than sixteen and a
half .per cent. Cotton blankets are
used mainly by those who can’t af-
ford woolen goods upon which the ra-
tio of tax is much less. Cotton hose
are to ‘be taxed fifty per cent. and
if a girl wants to wear hose having
the appearance of silk, she is pen-
alized plenty for her vanity, for if
there is even a trifling mixture of
silk or rayon in a pair of cotton hose
the duty is fifty-five cents a pound
and sixty-five per cent. ad valorem.
The same discrimination is shown in
all other commodities mainly used
by women and the impression of
prejudice against women is inevit.
able.
————————————————
~The United ' States Senators
seem to be of the opinion that Bill
Vare never was elected legally.
may be unjust dealings will provoke
a funds the building of war- |
er, an expert in naval affairs,
_employed by three
‘corporations to persuade
"and everybody else that a big navy
is essential to the safety of the
, United States. He attended the nav-
al conference at Geneva a year or so
ago and convinced Ambassador Gib-
son and the other reresentatives of
the Washington government that any
concession that might result in agree-
ment would mean national disaster.
was
He subsequently made it clear to
Senators and Representatives in
Congress that failure to build fifteen
new cruisers within five years would
set Uncle Sam on “the sliding board”
that would land him in perdition.
That was a grave fault and deserves
punishment. :
But why fasten the blame on
Shearer? He is a professional lob-
byist ready to offer his services to
any interest seeking favors, sinister
or otherwise, from the government.
It seems to our lay and untrained
| mind that the ‘shipbuilding corpora-
tions which employed him are equally
if not more, culpable than he. Each
of them had contracts with the gov-
ernment at the time and naturally
expected more, if more ships were to
de built, and they employed him to
Peftorm the services not for the gov-
|¢ —Dr. Eugene Steinach, the Vienese
scientist who had a lot of senile in-
dividuals believing “there is hope”
when he announced his monkey
gland -injection theory, is out with a
| new one. This time it is “centroner-
vin,” a secretion he has isolated in
the brain which he says will make
silly people sensible and sensible peo-
ple silly. Tried on frogs it stimulat-
flies more per hour than they had
been able to capture before the in-
jection. We await with hopefulness
the result of the injections on hu-
mans, for if it acts on us like it
does on frogs we're going to be in-
jected the evening before the fif-
teenth of April next.
——The new chaitman of the Re-
publican National committee will
undertake to make the South “solid”
for the Grand Oil Party. and he has
a hard job.
— Senator Reed may be fighting for
delay in the Vare case in order to
keep Joe Grundy out of the Senate.
There are larger and lesser evils.
——Senator Walsh of Montana has
his eye on the Morgan-Mellon power
monopoly and Governor Roosevelt
of New York isn’t blind either.
mi mens
——1It has been announced that
“Russia will avoid real war on
China.” Maybe it’s a case of adopt-
ing the “better part of valor.”
———Chief Justice Taft was seventy-
two years old on Sunday and he has
had as much fun in that period of
time as. any other man.
——The seat of the Luzerne coun-
ty water war has been transferred
to Harrisburg, which may be called
“the enemy's country.”
—The Kellogg treaty doesn't
seem to be accomplishing much in
the way of adjusting the Russo-
Chinese troubles.
——The lobby investigation is
likely to involve some of the higher-
ups in ‘the Navy Department at
Washington. :
—The equinox being - at hand we
are likely to have a “spell” of weath-
er, if you know what hat means.
Th evachalion of the Rhine-
land is in progress and the United
States of ‘Europe in prospect.
——=—Probably ‘the hazard inspires
the sport-mind to take the air.
shipbuilding |
Congress |
ed them into catching seventy-one
DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
Kline Wins Nomination for Tax Col-
lector in Bellefonte Borough.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
Tax Colector: N.W. S.W. vy Total
Schaeffer .................. 70 53 167
Baottorf ol 47 55 5 126
Burgess:
Harris... 87 55 39— 181
Cowher ............... 24 55 17— 96
Borough Ceuncil r
orth Ward
South Ward:
MIBNOL . .......... ios miisiosiiiriomsns isp 98
: Nighthart = is. - 4
West Ward:
cunningham 0... .5 Thiel tooo 29
! Ardery i... nd SLUR 54
i REPUBLICAN TICKET.
, Tax Collector: - N.W. S.W. W.W. Total
Love ..... .....163 108 79— 350
Klinger 127 33 18— 178
Kline 146 218 52— 416
Burgess:
Harris 306 172 74— 542
Cowher .. 115 142 47— 304
Borough Council:
North Ward:
RNoAGeS .............. .. ll 171
Emerick ..231
Beaver
South Ward):
Nighthart
Mignot ..
West Ward
Kruse .. .. 67
Brouse ....... ... 61
Cunningham 35
JOAON coer tim EE YT SET 9
District Attorney: N.W.S.W.W.W. Total
1 Lovell. aul dn 283 72— 589
L Dale w.iiiniinnins 136 98 72— 306
The above figures tell the tale of
Tuesday's primaries in Bellefonte,
but not the full story by any means.
For a primary of only a modicum of
local importance it had more excite-
ment than generally attends one of
national or State interest.
Around in the North ward a num-
ber of residents who have never vot-
ed anywhere else in their life were
refused a ballot when their names
could not be found on the registry
list, and naturally this caused no lit-
tle irritation to the refused, all of
whom blamed the assessor. A few
| voters in both the South and West
wards also discovered that their
names were not on the list.
- One of the biggest surprises of the
day was the strength developed by
Harris. Cowher did not get into the
swim until Saturday but so thorough-
ly were his supporters organized that
in the three wards he polled a total
of 304 Republican votes to 540 for
Harris. And on the Democratic bal-
lot he had 96 to 181 for Harris. Of
course he failed in the nomination
but he had a mighty fine chase.
Close organization in his own ward
gave the nomination for tax collector
on the Republican ticket to O. A.
Kline, but at that he came through
with a majority of only 86 over
Sarah M. Love, his nearest opponent.
On the Democratic ticket Charles
Schaeffer was nominated over W. M.
Bottorf by a majority of 41.
The West ward, however, furnished
the most unexpected result of the
day. Running on a platform of
American men for municipal-labor
Harmon Kruse won the nomination
for borough council over W. H.
Brouse by a majority of six votes,
and the lineup at the election will
be Harmon Kruse and J. C. Jodon,
Republicans, against J. M. Cunning-
ham and E. E. Ardery, Democrats.
The only contest on the county
ticket was that between John G.
Love and former Judge Arthur C.
Dale for the nomination for district
attorney. Love winning by a major-
ity of 618 votes. The total vote cast
was 2890 for Love and 2272 for Dale.
Love carried 47 out of the 65 pre-
cincts in the county. Dale carried
Philipsburg borough by only a small
majority. State College borough ‘gave
Love a small majority.
Up at State College Col. William
P. Rothrock was defeated for a sec-
ond term as burgess by Capt. Eugene
Lederer, while J. Fred Harvey won
the nomination for tax collector in a
big field of candidates.
Philip H. Johnston, Democratic
candidate for district attorney, had a
total of 1762 votes, which is rather
remarkable considering the fact that
there were no contests to bring out
the Democratic vote. This surprising
‘vote might be taken as evidenece |
that he will be a strong contender |
for the office at the November elec-
tion.
——Col. Theodore Roosevelt has
been nominated by the President to
be Governor of Porto Rico and he is
grateful. It's not a big office - but
the Colonel is not a very large figure.
-——In Columbia county justice is
hard-fisted as well as even handed.
Self-confessed = chicken thieves got
penitentiary sentences at Bloomsburg,
the otuer day.
iNOW if Congress would arrange
for “a Constitution Day” and make
proper use of it a hope for the fu-
ture might be aroused.
SPAWLS FROM TH THE KEYSTONN.
—An exhibit of almost: 400 cattle at the
Bloomsburg fair is indicated by early en-
tries ~which will close Saturday and the fair
will open September 30. Premiums this
year have been doubled in’ the Ayreshire
and Jersey classes, resulting in a much
larger show.
—Bdward J. Dickey, 65, died from:
creeping paralysis at his home at Meyers-~
dale after an illness of more than a year.
He was manager of the Bell Mercantile
company store, registrar of vital ‘statis-
tics, a member of the Board of Health
and one of the borough auditors.
—Louis Ruzewich got angry when a
couple of robbers entered his store at
New Castle, Pa., and hit him on the head
with a blackjack, so he locked them in
the store and went for the police. The
men were unable to break out during the
interim and were arrested. :
Thomas Bathurst, of Blanchard, em-
ployed on the McEwen and Zimmerman
lumber operations on Scootac creek, Clin-
ton county, is recovering from powder
burns on his face and right arm, which
he suffered from a premature explosion,
while splitting logs by means of powder.
—The nineteenth child, a daughter, was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Walk Gallagher,
of West Decatur, Clearfield county, on
Wednesday, September 11th. Seventeen of
the children are living and all are
at home. The head of the family isem-
ployed at the plant of the General Re-
fractories company, at Blue Bali.
—Trapped in his automobile as it
crashed and burst into flames, Paul Rut-
ter, 19, of near New Holland, Lancaster
county, was burned to death. Rutter was
driving between New Holland and Hink-
letown. According to. witnesses, he had
just passed another car when his machine
swerved from the road, struck a pole and
caught fire.
_—Ten quarts of nitro-glycerine were
thrown violently to the roadside without
exploding when a truck carrying the high
explosive left the road and overturned on
a steep hill near Franklin, on Monday.
Albert Brooks, 32, Butler; the driver, was.
taken to a hospital for treatment of pel-
vic injuries, deep cuts about the legs and
body bruises.
—Miss Nellie Falcone, 19, of Bangor,
Northampton county, pleaded guilty to
firing twice at her former sweetheart,
Frank Martocci, alleged to have been
spreading . slanderous tales about her.
Judge Stewart imposed a two-year sen:
tence which he suspended on condition
she takes no more pot shots at Martocci.
She was also fined $50.
—Allen Wagner, Arthur Gross and Ed-
ward Rape, Bethlehem young men who
for several weeks terrorized residents of
that city, have started sentences of six
years in the county prison for holding up
a man.and woman in a petting party on
the outskirts of the city. Police withheld,
the names of victims, one of whom had,
recognized one of the bandits who relieved
them of money and valuables.
—Work - has been started ona wo
story building to be erected at a cost of
$25,000 ‘in Clearfield by the Widemann &
Teah company, of Lock Haven, to house
the Clearfield store of this well known:
drug firm. ~The first floor of the build-
ing will be occupied by the firm and the
- { second floor will provide office rooms. The’
. | site on’ which ‘the building’ is being ereet-
ed was purchased at a cost of "$20,000.
~The Altoona works of the Pennsylva-
nia Railroad company has received orders
for the erection of electric locomotives,
passenger and freight cars costing ap-’
proximately $2,000,000. This new work in
addition to the normal allotment of loco-
motive and car repair work being done
in the three big departments of the shops,
affords a more promising and brighter’
outlook for -the fall and winter in that
city. : ;
—In these days of stolen airplanes and
countless purloined motor cars, horse
thieves still exist. Andrew G. Kriebel, a
butcher of Hereford, Bucks county, liv-
ing on the State road between. Hereford
and Pennsburg, reported to State police
that a young brown horse with a white
star on his forehead was stolen Monday
about 3 A. M. State police and. county
detectives are searching for the animal, :
valued at $250.
—The three Mt. arma bandits, who :
have held up, beat amd. robbed and shot
victims there for three weeks, have shift- .
ed their activities to the Middleburg dis- .
trict, 50 miles away, where early on.
Tuesday they broke into the home - of
Charles S. Reigel, beat him into uncon-
sciousness, then. stole $42. Small quan-
tities of potatoes and onions had been
stolen from his barn lately and Reigel
remained up to investigate. y
—For their health’s sake Pittsburgh's é
police and firemen have been sentenced
to the ‘‘electric chair.’ The chair, how-
ever, shoots only enough current through
| its oceupant to improve his blood circu-
lation, soothe tired nerves, massage the
body and ‘do other things toward -build-
ing up a strong physique. Known as the
combination vibratory chair, the equip-
ment vibrates when charged with 110
volts of electricity. One of its primary
objects is to reduce the waistline of sev-
eral officers with excessive avoirdupois.
Opinions were returned on Monday by
the Workmen's Compensation Board in 10
cases involving volunteer firemen or their
dependents, in which it was held that a
volunteer fireman's course of employment
is not restricted to the geographical area
of the particular unit in which his head-
quarters are located. A volunteer fireman,
acting ‘“‘under orders of a duly authorized
superior, within reasonable bounds and
under customary circumstances,” is with-
in the course of his employment, the
‘board found, ‘even though he be beyond
the confines” of his own municipal sub-
division.
—~Dominick Zervalia, of Shenandoah,
former prison guard in the Schuylkill
county jail, was freed of complicity in the
escape of Alvarez ~ Miquel, slayer, from
that institution last March, when the °
court: ordered his acquittal on - Monday. -
The order came after the case had been
in progress half an hour and on the eve
of an election which has stirred the coun-
ty as no other in its history. The scandal
following the jailbreak has figured prom-
inently in the campaign. Mrs, Clara Fess-
ler, former school teacher, convicted of
having aided Miquel, forgot to remember
any dealings ‘she might have had with
Zervaglia, and the ‘case collapsed. She
was taken to Pottsville. from the Wo-
men’s Industrial Home at Muncy, where
she will spend the next two. years, to
tage.
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