2 X he Centre Le acral. Circulation Over 3800 THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST Both Parties are Rushing Forces to the Front BOMBARDING FORT ARTHUR Several Attacks the Past Week but Lit- tle Damage Done— Russia Prepar- ing a Large Armada—No Import ant Evfagements During the past week little newsjof | any importance was received in regard to the Russian Japan war, Both belig- erents are massing immense armies, and | erecting fortifications for serious work | later. The Japanese fleet has bombard: ed Port Arthur several times, but with little effect, never venturing near enough for a decisive battle. The numerous re- ports that Port Arthur had fallen have all proven incorrect. neither side has gained any decided vie- | | his own doctor. tory or advantage. Feverish activity prevails in naval cir- cles at St. The Russian squadron will remain in the Mediter- Petersburg. ranean until August, when they will send an extraordinary strong squadron to de- stroy or capture the enemy's fleet. It will three first class battleships now nearly completed. Russia fears China will make sort of hostile move after the first land | 519 applicants: fight, besides accusing Japan of violat mg the laws of nations in shelling the | Dalny quarantine station. Japanese torpedo boats appeared off | Port Arthur at midnight of the night of March 21-22, and the shore batteries and guardships shelled them for twenty minutes. ‘The Japanese retreated but reappeared four hours later, when they met with the same reception, when they retired again. “At 9g a. m. a Japanese squadron of two divisions, composed of four and eleyen ships, accompanied by eight ships accompanied by eight torpedo boats, ap- peared and the Russian squadron sailed out from the outer roadstead to meet them. “No further details regardiog the action are available. "At g a. m. the Japanese battleships having fired sev- | While exploring a cave in a wood, James eral shots at Liaotishin and sheltered be. hind the promontory, commenced a bombardment of Port Arthur. The correspondent of the Times at Tokio, under Wednesday's date, cables that its rumored the Japanese have suc- ceeded in blocking the entrance to Port Artbar. According to the Standard’s St. Petersburg correspondent, the Rus- sian government has privately informed | the senators that since the outbreak of | the war exactly one hundred thousand | troops have been forwarded to the far east by the Siberian railway. CLARA BARTON ACCUSED. The American Red Cross Society is rent in twain. Definite charges of mis- management were filed against Clara Barton and her coterie of friends by a large majority of the directors —an emin- ent and honorable body of citizens, They found that not less than $715,000 have been collected and that no part of it was | received or disharsed by the Treas and the accounts, if accounts were kept, have never been audited. There have been no public reports of receipts or expenditures. Money paid in has been used for anything that the President wish ed to nse it for, without consultation with the directors, It is charged that the charter of the society has been grossly and repeatedly violated. Miss Barton has now to show why reorganization should not take place in the public in- terest, ever urer, Miles-Eberts. Tuesday morning at 7 o'clock John B. Miles and Miss Blanch M. Eberts, of Martha, were married at the home of the bride's parents by Rev. Decker. The bride was attended by Miss Mary Woodring while the groom had for his best man, Earnest Spotts. An excellent wedding breakfast was served and many beautiful presents were received by the bride. The groom is a son of ex county Treasurer John Q. Miles, and a steady young man who won a most estimable young lady. Notice to Subscribers. Subscribers who change their residence this spring are requested to notify the office. By doing this promptly it will avoid delay in the delivery of the paper, Those desiring their postoffice’ address changed will give their present address as well as the new one. A constable at Lock Haven hae resign. ed his dangerous office because the coun. ty commissioners have offered but $aso reward for the arrest of a brother offi- eer's assailant, In the past week { ands of doll | has faith { it necessary he will be stronger than the existing | Japanese squadron, for it will include the | i of | been some | full { cance he carried pine torches. {ing | ner | dead tree, Sixty-day Fast. VY. R. Wilcox of West Fairview, Cum. berland county, who has abstained from all solid food since January 17, in the hope of curing himself of stomach trouble, Thursday broke what is prob- ably the longest fast on record. Mr. Wilcox's first change of diet was from boiled water to nourishing broth, which will be his diet until his stomach is strong | enough to retain solid food. Until 10 days ago Wilcox attended to work in his poultry house, but since Sun. day be bas been confined to bed on ac- | He says he 8 afraid it will be some time before he | { is strong enough to walk. | count of extreme weakness, Wilcox started on milk and lived for one mouth 7m farinaceous water from boiled oatvzieal, and during the remaind. er of ue fast he subsisted on pump water, Although greatly weakened and emaciated by his long fast, he is hopeful | that he will ultimately recover from | stomach complaint. Wilcox was not under medical surveil. iance during his fast, preferring to be After spending thous. adyice without deriving benefit he says he still n the doctors, and if he find ars upon physicians’ is summon one. ADDITION AL L 10U0R LICE NSES. On Tuesday, at a session of argument court, Judge Love passed on a number liquor license applications that had held over the first hearing The following were granted, from all being Philipsburg— Thomas Barnes, dnd ward, Dorsey Myers, 2nd ward Joseph Peters, Jr., 2nd ward Enoch Hugg, 20d ward. James Black, 2nd ward. Grin Vall, 20d ward. Two applications were withdrawn : Wier Bloom, Rush twp. R.F. Emerick, Walker twp. These were continued, all being new applications : Thos. F. Street, Ind ward, Philipsburg. Rush township. Andrew Sommerville, Rush twp Welst & Bridenholer, 2nd ward, Philipsburg D. W. Schaar, Garfield Boles. Lawrence Nugent. Fred Eisenhauer. Penned ia a Cave With a Catamount. | A dispatch from Willlamsport says: Skinner, of Muncy valley, ran across a ‘grown catamount, which snarled at him but which did not dare approach be- Hurry. back to the mouth of the cave, Skin found to his astonishment, that a under which he had crawled to get into the cave, had slid a few feet down the side of the mountain and ef- fectually blocked the entrance. His ut. most strength failed to move it, and he became thoroughly frightened. three hours he kept his torches burning and thus prevented an attack from the catamount, Finally, when his available firewood had almost gone, it happily oc” curred to him to build a fire under the tree. He acted at once, and the blaze had been going less than half an bour wheo the tree broke and Skinner was able to crawl from his prison nearly | choked by the smoke. | - i ] : Large Trout in Engine Tank, Au unusual find in the shape of an | eight inch brook trout was found in the | tank of eopgine 2198, of the New | York Central road in the shops at Oak Grove, Thomas Mulhern, an employe, entered the tank to make repairs. A little water remained in the bottom and with the aid of the rays from his lamp | Mr. Mulhern saw the fish swimming | about in the water, hands and coming to the light saw that it was a fine large trout. It is supposed the fish was drawn from a tank while the engine was taking water. It was returned to a nearby trout stream in compliance with the state law, » No Big Fire at Tyrone, About 5:30 o'clock Monday morning fire was discovered in Uhl's cigar and billiard establishment at Tyrone and be- fore the flames could be controlled Sprankle Bros.’ meat market, Van. scoyce’'s cigar store, Study & Bouse's millinery and the grocery department of Templeton & Co's. department store was destroyed. More or less dam. age was also done to the main store of Templeton & Co. It is expected that contracts will be let by April 1 for building the Bing. hampton and Southern railroad which is to be extended from Binghampton, N. Y., to Williamsport, a distance of 116 miles. All but fourteen and one half miles of the line are in Pennsylvania and the short portion tn New Vork state will be built under the name of the Broome county railroad. Surveys have been completed, It takes something more than giving, to clean dirty hands. | exer For | He caught it in his BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1904. VACCINATION A SUCCESS Some Good Advice To People Who Oppose It. | THE ONLY SURE PREVENTION Proven by Records Kept in Philadelphia Hospitals—0Only Method to Check the Disease. | Result of Vaccination Clearly | Since smallpox has invaded various sections of our county and spread Into many families, too much care can not be | ised in keeping it from becoming a general The appeared io a recent issue epidemic following article | of the North | American, and should read by C be carefully nire county peopic SUICIDE BY SMALLPOX of lo hor. the of the After the vehement opponenents vaccination have said all they have say ; after they have pictured the rors of accidental infection from operation and upheld the liberty citizen against legal compulsion, there still remain the facts, The records of deaths and of persons exposed, yet im muuve, dissipate the most eloquent the- ories. Dr. J. F. Schamberg, in his lecture at the Central High school last week, presented facts which ought to obliterate opposition to the Jennerian method. Of more than 3900 smallpox patients treated at the Municipal Hospital dar. ing the last three years not one had been recently successfully vaccinated Of 120 trained nurses employed—suc cessful vaccination being a prerequisite — uot one contracted the disease. None of the medical attendants was | attacked. Of 100 workmen employed near the patients four refused to be vaccinated. These were stricken with smallpox, | while those who submitted to the opera. { tion were unscathed. Of 700 medical students who haye | worked in the smallpox wards only one | caught the infection, and he had never | been successfully vaccinated. | There is po question that evidence like | | this might be multiplied indefinitely from | | the records of hospitals for contagious | | diseases. Scientific authority and prac. {tical experience sustain Dr. Scham. | berg’s conclusions : i “There is no excuse at the present | | day for any one to perish of smallpox. | | The man who refuses to havé his chii- | dren vaccinated is guilty of criminal | | megligence ; more so, indeed, than be! who stores in his house dangerous ex plosives ' — — - i Young Fish for State Streams, The state department of fisheries will send 5 898 000 young fish to all parts of Pennsylvania in the spring for stocking More than 202,000 will the hatcheries for breed public streams be retained at ing purposes. The department has granted 4 237 ap- plications for trout to stock streams These applications have been received from all counties of the state, except Beaver, Bucks, Greene and Mercer, which counties have virtually no trou streams within their borders. Only one can, each of which will con. | tain 1300 young fish, will be sent to fill each application. The applications granted are those for public streams only | and all applications from persons desir iog to stock private streams were re-! fused Skipped Out. Philipsburg was treated to a surprise Monday morning, when it was discover: ed that the Maeller Brothers, who have been in the produce business at Philips. burg for nearly a year, had "folded their tents like the Arabs and silently stole away'' between two days. The Muellers came from Baltimore, nearly a year ago, did a wholesale business. The latter part of last week they sold their depleted stock out as close as could be and on | Monday motning, between three and | four o'clock, slipped quietly from their lodgings, loaded their personal effects into their delivery wagon and drove to Tyrone, taking the train from there, presumably for Baltimore. The remnant of stock left behind would not amount to $50. — Philipsburg Ledger. M. E. Conference. Bishop C. C. McCabe, popularly known as Chaplain McCabe will preside over the sessions of the Central Pennsylvania M. E. conference, which convened in the Fifth street church, at Harrisburg, yes- terday afternoon. This will be the thirty. sixth annual [session of the conference, One of the most interesting features of the conference will be the election of lay and ministerial delegates to the general couference in May. Laymen can vole only for members of their own body, which rule also applies to ministers, The Pennsylvania Commissioners have finished their labor at the Vicksburg Military Park and have selected a site for the Pennsylvania mosument at some point within the park. Colomel Austin Curtin, of the commission, was surprised with the presentation of a gold.-headed cane Saturday om the occasion of his sixty-aisth birthday. | answers daily. | with those who wrote | walls of {township are literally | photographs of widows and maidens wished to be his better half, | county | 25th. He, has a fine line of well | live stock, and implements. HE WAS CHOICY. Out of a list of 3,500 fair suitets for his hand, his heart and his Highland township, “Squire’’ Samuel W. chosen a wife. The remaining 3499 the “squire’’ has turped mito money by sell. ing their letters in reply to his now fam ous advertisement for a wife, monial agency. sale, little store Adams Hammers covtty, to a matri Hammers’ bride is a western girl, whom he found among his list of corres, poudents. Seyeral Hammers adver fs since | that time be has received fiom 25 to YECRISs ago tised for a wife with 000, and 50 He exchanged pictures to the room Highland him and his store in papered with the who Daring the long winter evenings Ham- mers would amuse the loiterers in his store by reading to them choice his wi extract they wrilien would by resting and from love and agre . widows letters ’ th were much more inte him that those point than those written by the to the oly hitia - Jamison Seen Near His Home. Sheriff Shearer has received a numbe: of letter wher to him that Jamison has been seen in the s from persons in ¢ Sherman Jamison lives, who state and the sheriff and territory of his home adjoining since 0is posse were there, The opinion is prevalent {that Jamison is able to move about in fair disguise and it is to be hoped that | some one will identify him and keep tab on his whereabouts so that the officers { will be able to round him up and cap- ture him. It is all important that this outlaw should be brought to justice for | the assault upon the officers which re. sulted in Constable Deeghan’s death was entirely uncalled for and none but a vil. lain would have attempted it.—Demo- | cral t— Dosen’t Want to Play Goat. The editor of the Ridgeway Advocate gets this view of things religious from a back seat. “The modern method of di. viding sheep from the goats at religious meetings may be useful! and have a good effect in some respects, but there bt that it avoid the meetings men are driven away there is a throagh good thing however, 5 no dou will make some people and if K of saving them There about professing christians stand ap asd leav- ing the old sioners in thelr seats—look- ing like thirty cents, he informs the ob: server that there are men really on the Lord's side who were never suspected of it before.” thereafter from the meetin little chance is the meetings one having the Fell From Train and Seriously !njured. John Gallagher, of Howard, was quite seriously injured Thursday night of last | week about ten o'clock while attempting to board a train at Milesburg It was a | freight train and going at a rapid rate when Gallagher attempted to jump it He missed his footing and was thrown to the ground, dislocating his hip and in. flicting serious scalp wounds taken to the He was Bellefonte Hospilai be is receiving every attention possible, where His wounds while severe are sot neces* sarily fatal. He is 23 vears of age and a son of Mrs McCumminsg, of this place. - —— A A A Mistake. C. E. Yearick, living three miles cast of Jacksonville, Marion twp., will have public sale to morrow, Friday, March bred attention to the time of his call special sale as an error was made in iast issue | in our sale register. It read “Friday, | March 24th.” Priday is the right day but the date is the 25th, instead of 24th, By referring to his bills you will find a | complete list of stock; a list also appears in the Sale Register, » page 3 Co. B. Will be There Too. The Philadelphia Ioquirer says: The committee having in charge the building of the memorial to Brigadier General Alexander leroy Hawkins, the famous Colonel of the “Fighting Tenth’ Infan- try, has decided that the unveiling of the monument will be held in Schenley Park, Pittsburg, on June 15. Capt. Taylor's Co. B boys will be there toG, and, as usual, take the plum. For Sale. A new 5-horse power, horizontal, Pais. banks, gas or gasoline engine, Can be seen any time at this office. Raogine too large for our purpose, and have or. dered a 2-h power engine, same make to take {is piace In our new office. No bet. ter on the market; very few are as good. ecut and description on page 2, Also & good 12 inch water motor. Inquire personally at this office, before April ast, in has | thrifty He cleared $50 by the | We want to | OUR HISTORICAL ty During 1835- 1836. {A JOURNEY TO | Made Over the Famous at Hollidaysburg Alleghenies Along B. E. Crossing the Letting of the Canal Valley. (Events in Centre county, in 1835 36 letting of the lower division of the Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation Company Canal, and political, are of in- terest to the reader; also a description of travel to Pittsburg over the once famous inclined planes at Hollidaysburg, by a writer in the Philipsburg Journal.) September 10th, a great crowd gather- | Bellefonte to the the B lettin the and ed in g of lower division of ald Eagle Spring Cree Canal. The Howa'd dam wes al Joseph Harris, Marsh Creek dan Iddings, & Malone, and the y Herring & M nt orgeS. Arm Company to 1 to k Navigation lotted the Moore Bee Creek dam 1 chead; locks rand 270 G & Hugh McCormi ving, Herring & T occurred } 10 Saul ision of the t herents vy A Muhlen. of wiween the ad Henr in the regular party r Wolf and election The was head w senator Democratic led by George Wolf for of Lycoming, ; John Hasson, of Centre, and David Ferguson, of Clear- Philip B. Musser for D. Shagert Governor; illiam F. Packer, for field, for Assembly ; commissioner; Joseph for auditor The ticket at the mast.head the Bellefonte Palriof and Farmers’ Journal, then printed and published by J. T. Mc. Cracken, was for Governor, Joseph Rit- per; for Senator, Alexander Irvin, of Clearfield; for Assembly, George Buch- anan, of Gregg: for Commissioner, David Dale, of Harris; Auditor, Gen. James Irvin, of Boggs. A reform meeting was | held lo Miles township at Philip Reitzell’s | —Philip Wolfart, chairman; Samuel { Hockenbury, secretary,—which passed resolutions favorable to Joseph Ritner's election The Pourth of July was celebrated this year by the Beliefonte Grays t hotel . a8 of wy a dinner The by t Robert Farey's Grays Democrat at were heir a with appears Burnside presided, r and John Rankin, E ents; N. McA Judge le was C. B. Callahan, "for his $ for the Bald Eagle and ing Creek Canal,” John B. Wagner, toasted William H. ‘hest office within toasts w vice p the Judge or v wn 4 as resi ister read Burnsid Declaration; toasted by Capt untiring effort Spr however, Harrison as worthy the hig the people’s gift; C. Reese gave for Martin Van Buren, "May every true Democrat gO to the polls without fear or doubt,” 8. T. Shugert’s toast was, '‘The beauties of anti-Masonty-a British bank chartered and a British poll tax enacted, the rights of the people sold, the Constitution viola“ ted, and one thousand six bundred and forty-eight citizens of Centre county dis franchished.”’ The Democratic (Masonic had Potter Assembly; oner, Col. Andrew Gregg: Audi T. Hoover; Senatorial ticket its candidates, W. W John Hasson for this fall for for Congress; Commiss tor John Coroner, McKee; stitutional « Samuel Delegate to the Con onvention, John G. Lon rey August 31st, James Parker, of Howard township, aged twenty.five years, was caught in the machinery of Howard Far nace and crushed to death. He passed around pressed between it and the head block, through a space of about eight inches There are many of the older readers | of the Centre Democrat, that remember | the lively days of travel over the Nationa) turnpike, and the inclined planes at Hol. | Hdaysburg; t to them, as well as to the | | later generation, the following, by a | writer in the Philipsburg Journal, will be of intercs as to the inclined plares: In August 1849, I crossed the Allegheny | mountain on the inclined planes from above Hollidaysburg to | | | ] | : canal, thence on a palatial steamboat to | New Orleans. There were five inclined planes by which | the mountain was ascended on the east side and other five by which it was de. cended on the west side. The cars were attached to a wire rope at the foot of a plane and drawn up to the top of it by a stationary engine placed there which pro* pelled a large drum around which the wire cable was wound gradually draw" {ng the cars to the summit. Where there were levels from one incline to another if the distance was short the car was drawn by horses, if long, say several miles, the locomotive of that day-—and it was a crude machine indeed-~drew the cars, The longest level was only fours teen miles. The descent of the mountain REVIEW | Important Events In Centre Coun- | PITTSBURG | | Incline Planes Johnstown, | thence to Pittsburg on the Pennsylvania | VOL. 26. KO. 12, FACT, FUN AND FANCY, Bright Sparkling Paragraphs — Selected and Original. A train of thought time, isn't always om For girls a court room is the parior of papa'’s house, In some businesses nothing succeeds a failure. Even the milk of human kindness may be condensed When a girl is heiress she to have freckles. can afford A man naturally feels cheap when he gives himself 3 Itisn’t always s away afe to trust a man who parades his honesty, The fell ner feathers ow who marries a rich milli- his It is no trouble for a train of thou own nest, ght to run on the d The blac often manage Fie The ywnward grade. k sheep and the fatted calf to get together, lawyer is a ways looking for trou. t he wants none of his own. T with his flee ed toa in about her co y to go and gets his ion the boy spoke truer t he Knew. Two men were disputing over their respective churches. One was a Presby- terian and the other a Baptist. Finally one called a neighbor who was passing and asked his opinion as to which was the only church saved. “Well” said be, “my son and I have hauled wheat to the same mill nigh onte forty years. Now there are two roads that lead from our place to the mili— one’s the valley road ; t'other takes over the hill. And never yet, friends, has the miller asked me which road I took, but be always asks : “‘Is your wheat good ?”’ ADJOINING COUNTIES. in which to be Eighteen cases of smallpox baye been located in Boswell, a Somerset county town. There's a cake of ice, cast up on the lowlands near Bloomsburg by the recent flood, that thick, long and must weigh about 4 is 25 feet wide, 11 feet 52 feet wo tons WwW of Samue death Ohio, about rd has be received of the Bittn Menday. yt # er at Youngstown, on Deceased was rars and was the son of Jacob Bittner of The body will brought to the home of the parents of Flat Rock facing a general epi year Flat Rock, near Salona be t the deceased at Lewisburg is lemic of smalipox, says the Journal, with the outbreak of seven new cases this week in three different families, and the board of health has at awakened to the affairs, and has establish. the last serious state of a strict tricts. A Polish girl, aged 14 hydrophobia last week near Irvoua the The wound quarantise in infected dis died of She Janu- appeared to heal fore her death ye m Pie peared the years, was bitten leg by a dog oo 4 picely unt) the tern she on ary a few days be when ms ag and suff:red unt agony end Mrs. Mary E lewistown, Jacobs died at her home on Sunday hip. live in Pa., at 2:30 morning as a result of a fractured She was 76 years of age and was a na re she had resided all of the of Lewistown, whe ber She was the daughter late Dr. Thomas VanValzah, prominent physician in that viciaity for fifty-eight years. Sheriff Torrence Shearer, of Lock Haven, and the county commissioners say there is absolutely nothing new im reference to the whereabouts of Jamison, the fugitive slayer of constable Deeghan. | The story that Jamison is still at large | and has not been seen lately by anyone, | at least Sheriff Shearer and the commis- sioners have heard from no one who has seen the fugitive lately. What is known as the Kaickerbocke r | Construction company has purchased forty-four acres of land and will erect life who was a ] It was an eventful trip. | about four hundred brick houses in a | section that will be known as South Al. toona. The tract was secured from the Rlias Baker heirs and located along the Sixth avenue road between Fortieth and Forty-seveuth street. The company will begin the erection of dwelling houses in a few weeks, Contracts have been awarded by the Lewistown and Reedsville Trolley com- pany for the extension of its tracks from Lewistown proper to the Penn’a railroad depot at Lewistown Junction, one mile away. This will do away with the tire. some ride by omnibus between the city and the railroad station. The company has purchased the Hoofnagle farm, near Burnham, which it will convert into a Continued on page 4. pleasure park.
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