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Johnstown’s Citizens Indignant.
They Denounce the Distribution of the
Relief Fund.
Jonxst wn, July 15.—Fully one
thousand people attended a mass meet-
iug of citizens Saturday afternoon called
to protest against the manner in which
the State Commission was handling the
relief fund. All the leading citizens of
the town were present and speeches
were made by Colonel John P. Linton,
Captain H, H. Kuhn, Rev. D. J. Beale,
John M. Rose, A. J. Haws and many
others. W. Horace Rose, who has
been very ill since the flood, explained
that he was appointed as a inember of
the Commission, his first notice to that
effect having been received on July 6.
He of course was unable to attend, and
he believed that Governor Beaver knew
such was the case when he appointed
him. Ifa man from Johnstown had
been on this Commission, he said, the
fool methods now being naugurated
would not have been allowed. The
following resolutions were adopted:
“That the citizens of Johnstown and
vicinity respectfully yet earnestly re-
quest that the fund contributed for the
relief of the sufferers by the disastrous
flood which devastated the Conemaugh
Valley be as speedily as possible dis-
tributed in money directly to the people
for whose benefit it was donated, and
that aii purchases, contracts and ex-
penses to be paid for out of this fund
immediately cease.
“That any hoarding up of this fund
to meet problematical future wants
will materially diminish its usefulness
and only resultin delaying to more dis-
tant time restoration of homes, of busi-
ness, of industries and of confidence.
It will do more good in the hands of
. the people now than at any time here-
after.
“Phat if the statement imputed to
His Excellency, Governor Beaver, that
‘a million and a half of dollars has al-
ready been expended in Johnstown and
vicinity, has any foundation in fact, it
is the strongest possible argument that
expending relief funds in contracting
for buildings, quartermaster and com-
missary supplies is not a wise, judi-
cious or economical way of disbursing
such funds. When theordinary sources
of supply are opened up only by gross
extravagance and carelessness could
such a sum have been used here, and
the people have received no adequate
return for the expenditure of so large
an amount.’
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Canada Thistles.
* Thelaw of April 24, '85, requires that
it shall be the duty of every person or
persons, or corporations owning land,
to cut and destroy all Canada thistles
found upon their land so as to prevent
the same from going to seed and the
seed from ripening. Any person
refusing or neglecting to cut or dest. oy
the thistles shall forfeit and pay a fine
of $15 to the Treasurer of the School
District in which such land is situated:
It is also provided that if any per-
son or persons or corporations refuse
or neglect to destroy the thistles it shall
ba lawful for any person or persons
who may consider themselvesaggrieved
to inform, by written notice, any Con-
stable or Supervisor of the township or
district in which said Canada thistles
may be growing, whose duty it shall
be to give five days notice in writing to
such person or persons or corporations
to cut and destroy such thistles, and on
their neglect or refusal to cut and de-
stroy them at the end of five days it
shall be the daty of the officer and the
person aggrieved to cut and destroy
them, receiving compensation at the
rate of $2.50 per day, and the officer an
additional fee of 50 cents a day and 6
cents mileage for each mile.
Supervisors are to remove all this-
tles from highways and unseated lands.
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Good Advice to Governor Beaver.
Among other admonitions given to
Governor Beaver by the Philadelphia
Times concerning the proper applica-
tion of the money contributed for the
relief of the Johnstown sufferers, that
paper gives him the following excellent
advice in regard to the relief money
loaned on the credit of the State :
“Governor Beaver should see that his atti-
tude on this loan, made without law on the
implied faith of the State, must have the en-
tire trust of the people who are to pay it, and
there is only one way to assure that—by the
utmost frankness with the people. In this the
Governor has signally failed, and apparently
studiedly failed.” The only announcement he
has made is that “the Governor has expended
£225,000 in abating nuisances in Johnstown and
vicinity.” If the loan is bona fide and an hon-
est gift to the State of the interest, it would be
only just to the generous creditors and to the
people, to say who had furnished the mghiey 5
and it is certainly due to the taxpayers, who
are expected to repay the loan, that they know
to whom and for what the money is paid.
Governor Beaver is standing greatly in his own
light if he does not see the absolute necessity
of the frankest statements to the public of
every dollar he borrows and of every dollar he
expends on the faith of the State, and we ap-
peal to him to stop every semblance of secrecy
about the loan and its expenditure, and thus
silence the suspicions which are logically bred
by apparent hidaeness in borrowing and ex-
penc ling without legislative authority or direc-
tion.
Which is Which.
The Accounts at Johnstown Said to Be
Badly Mixed.
It was stated on good authority on
the hill yesterday that a coolness had
arisen between Governor Beaver and
Ahjutant General Hastings which, it is
said, has been occasioned by the alleged
fact that the adjutant general mixed up
the accounts during his management at
Johnstown, so that it is impossible for
the governor to givea detailed statement
of the expenditures. The money which
the state contributed to the sufferers is
being used exclusively for sanitary pur-
poses, while that contributed by the
eople is used in the nature of a relief
und. The adjutant general, it is said,
in drawing on the governor for money,
so mixed the accounts that it is im-
possible to find out how much of the
state money has been expended or how
much of the people’s fund has been
used. The governor left the city yes-
terday afternoon for Slatington and
could not be seen in reference to the
matter,— Harrisburg Patriot.
Skulking Dudley.
Philadelphia Times.
Soon after the last presidential elec-
tion William W. Dudley, the chief
boodler of Indiana politics, intituted
suits for damages against several New
York journals for defamation of char-
acter, laying damages at $100,000.
If his character hd been maliciously
defamed, he would have sought the
promptest and the fullest inquiry, but
when the defendants summoned him
to appear for examination as a witness
in his own suit, he fled the jurisdiction
of the court and has been skulking
from his own suit ever since.
The defendants followed Dudley to
Washington, where he has been skulk-
ing from both Indiana and New York
judicial process forsix months or more,
and attempted to force his own testi-
mony in his own ease, but without
success. The order of the court for
Dudley’s appearance as a witness was
finally carried by him to the supreme
court, where it was decided on Tuesday
last that Dudley’s appeal be dismissed,
which is a virtual order for him to stop
skulking and appear for examination.
Dudley must now either appear for ex-
amination in his own suits for damages
or his suits must be dismissed. Dud-
ley should stop skulking.
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Electricity on the Rampage.
EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 17.—This
city was visited by a heavy rain and
wind storm yesterday afternoon, doing
much damage. At 10 o'clock last night
when the power at the electric light sta-
tion for street illumination was turned on
the numerous wires which had been
blown down, charged the buildings and
pools of water in the street with elec-
tricity.
Tire a foot high was emitted in places,
causing an alarm to besounded. The fire
department responded, and being un-
aware of the condition of things rushed
into what was almost certain death.
Horses and firemen alike were knocked
down by the electricity.
fire only to be thrown down. Citizens
rushed in and met asimilar fate, and the
excitement ran high. Messengers hast-
ened to the station and had the electric
power shut off, when the work of recus- |
citating began.
|
A dozen or more men were found
unconscious, but their lives were
saved by lying them on the wet ground.
Others rushed |
into the building that was apparently on |
General Young's Trooper.
His Opinion of Three Beauties Causes
Immense Consternation.
Washington Post.
Here is a story that General Pierce
Young tells. Away up in the Georgia
mountains lies Catoosa Spring,a favorite
summer resort of Savannah and Atlanta
society people. Among the pines and
breezes of the hills the fever and lassi-
tude bred from the malarial air of the
low country disappear like magic. One
day General Young saw an old fellow
come up with a basket of eggs and a
bunch of chickens for the hotel people,
and recognized an old trooper of his
command. ;
Jake,” he called out,*‘Jake Dorridge,
how are you?”
“Why, laws a massy,gineral, how-de-
do? TI hain’t see ye since de wah.”
They chatted for a few minutes.
“Do you come up here often, Jake?”
“Pooty nigh every day. The folks
want my chickens ‘n’ aigs, ‘n’ I likes to
rest my eyes a-lookin’ at some o’ these
yer pooty gals.”
“They are handsome, aren't they,
Jake?”
“Deed they air.”
“Now, Jake,” said General Young,
waving his hand toward a group of
three young ladies with whom he had
been chatting, “tell me which of those
three young ladies is the prettiest.”
“Ay, Gineral Young,they’s all pooty.
‘Twouldn’t be good manners for me to
say ary one was pootier’n tother.”
“But, Jake, it will give them a great
deal of pleasure tolearn your opinion.
They are great friends, and will not
feel at all hurt by your decision. Now,
walk up and pick out the best looking.”
After much solicitation Jake under-
took the task. He walked up and
peered closely at the laughing girls.
About one hundred guests had gathered
by this time to see the trial. Finally
Jake turned, scratching his head. All
three of the young ladies wore broad
sashes around their waists.
“Gineral Young, they’s all so pooty
it is hard to make a choice, but still I am
forced to say that the one with the yaller
bellyband is the trimmest.”
There was a scream, a flutter of white
dresses,and three blushing young ladies,
with various colored sashes, dashed into
the hotel and out of sight.
Resigns His |
\ Spicy Letter of Resignation from an
Illinois Postmaster.
Several firemen are yet in a precarious
condition.
A
How the Trusts are Worked.
New York Evening Post.
The duty on raw sugar is about two
cents per pound. It yields $58,000,000
of revenue tothe Government onanannu- |
al importation of about three thousand
million pounds. The tariff is arranged to |
give the sugar-refiners a profit of one and |
a quarter cents per pound asa private
tax for their encouragement. This tax,
like the other one, islevied upon people,
not according to their means, but accord-
ing to their use and consumption of the
article. In order that this private tax
might not be lost through the competi-
tion of the refiners, a Trust has been
formed to hold the price of refined sugar
at the highest figure that the tariff will
permit, and the Trust has been successful
in accomplishing that result.
This is only one of numerous Trusts
which have their foundation in the tar-
iff. Ttisonly one among a vast multi-
tude of illustrations of the way that the
many are made to pay tribute to the few
through the device of indirect taxation.
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Atlanta's Celebration.
The celebration which isto take
place in October at Atlanta in honor of
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the des-
traction of the city by Sherman’s army,
will be an interesting event. President
Harrison will be there, but far more
eminent and conspicuous than he or
any other citizen on that occasion will
be General William Tecumseh Sher-
man, under whose military direction
Atlanta was destroyed. There he will
meet the most skillful of all confederate
commanders next to Lee, and also one
of the most sensible of those who have
survived the war, General Joseph E.
Johnston. With Georgia ready to wel-
come Sherman on such an occasion,
there will be some hope that the ani-
mosities of the past are really dying
out in that State.
Six Thousand Drowned.
A Flood in China Sweeps Away Sev-
eral Villages.
SAN FraANcIsco, Cal., July 16.—The
steamer City of New York, which arriv-
ed here last night from Hong Kong and
Yokohama, brings the news that early
on the morning of the 2d of June the
Chan Pinge and Ping Yuen districts of
China were flooded by the bursting of a
water dragon, and the level country was
flooded with nearly thirty-six feet of wa-
ter. The villages of Chae Kon and Ha
Ku Hsui, in the Ping Yuen district, and
Cueong Tan, Hop Lui, Ngai Ku, Sam
Chan and San Po Huj, in the Chan
Ping district, were overflowed, many
houses being wholly swept away, while
others were inundated. Upward of 6000
lives were lost. :
A Startling Discovery at Johnstown.
JouxsTowx, July 15.—A sensational
statement was made this morning by
a gentleman who said that the diver
who had examined the foundation of
the stone bridge for the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company had made some
startling discoveries. The story is
that the bottom of the Conemaugh
River, near the bridge, is full of dead
bodies, and that probably hundreds
are lying there, one upon another, held
down by tons ot iron that has been
warped and twisted into unknown pro-
portions.
——Upward of 6000 lives are report-
ed to have been lost by a terrible flood
in China which occured a few days be-
fore the Johnstown disaster. Calami-
ties of this character are so common in
China that this latest flood will not, of
course, provoke much attention; but itis
espe ally interesting as a fact since it
serves to show how widespread have
been the elemental disturbances of the
present summer.
The following document has been
received at Washington {rom the editor
postmaster at Mount Carmel, Ill. :
| Mount CarMEL, June 7, 1889.
“To the Hon. B. Harrison, President, ete. :
“31r—By the grace of God and Grover Cleve-
i land I am postmaster at Mount Carmel. My
official term will expire January 20, 1890. In
| addition to editing the mails of the city I am
also the editor of the Mount Carmel Register, a
| live local Democratic newspaper, established
in 1839, and published at $1.25 a year, cash in
advance; a discount of 20 per cent. to ministers
and presidents.
“While the office has agreed with me, and 1
have in the main agreed with the office, and
while I might reasonably entertain the hope of
holding on for eight months longer, yet I feel
it my duty to tender you my resignation.
“Being a Democrat, I have preached that ‘to
the victors belong the spoils.” I feel disposed
to practice that which I preach.
“I am moved to tender you my resignation
because of the anxiety of a barnyard full of
patriots to succeed me. I believe that a tariff is
a tax. They do not. Therefore they are of
vour own kith and kindred, and he who pro-
vides not for his own household is worse than
an infidel. Iam told that you are not built
that way.
“But to resume the thread of my discourse :
The boys who are anxious to be my successor
are very hungry; they have been feeding on
I shucks and icicles for four long, weary years;
the official calf is fat and they yearn to taste its
tender joints. They fought (among themselves),
bled (at the nose), and are willing to die for the
G.0O P. When I asserted that you were the
Chinaman’'s candidate and ate rat tail soup with
chopsticks, they swore by Dudley and Foster
that it was a campaign canard, and threatened
to detail blocks of five to fry the fat out of me.
Fortunately for me their threats were never
carrieo into execution.
» “They carried torches, drank with the coons.
sang “Grandpa’s hat will just fit Benny,” anc
did divers and many foolish things, none of
which would they have been guilty of doing
had they not scented an aroma of postoffice on
the crisp morning air. And the pseans ot praise
which they sounded when it became evident
that you ‘had got there, Eli,’ will never be a
Sahara in my memory.
“For these and other reasons, unnecessary
to mention, I tender you my resignation, with
the liope that my successor will be animated
by a similar spirit in 1893. If he is, your Dem-
ocratic successor will be spared the painful
necessity of “turning the rascal out.” I am re-
spectfully yours. “Frank W. HaviLe, P.M.
“N. B.—I would rather be right than be post-
master.”
Nearly Drowned.
Monday's Renovo News.
Early this morning a boatload of South
Renovo people coming to this side of
the river had a little exper ence that
they will not soon forget and the wonder
is that they are alive to remember it.
The boat was about the middle of the
stream near Seventh street where the
water is in the neighlorhood of fifteen
feet deep when it collided with another
boat and upset. The boat contained six
people and out into the water the whole
crowd was dumped. One ortwo of them
could swim but the others, including
one of the youngest daughters of Wil-
liam Kemerer, could not, and the crowd
succeeded in grasping the upturned boat
to which they clung and shouted for as-
sistance. Justice William
coming down the South Renovo road
hasten to the assistance of the omes in
danger; but strange to say, they refused
to make a move ir that direction, telling
the Squire they didn't propose risking
their lives. Rushing to the river’s edge
Mr. Nicholas, Andy Nelson and Wil-
liam Tanner secured boats and rowing
out into the stream succeeded in rescuing
the six people at a point below Eight
street. It was a fortunate escape and
the people have good cause for feeling
grateful to their rescuers.
It will be proposed in the Fifty-
first Congress to create a new depart-
ment ot Government, to he called the
Department of Public Works, with a
member of the Cabinet at its head. This
department would take charge of river
and harbor improvements, geological
survey,coast surveys, irrigation of desert
landsyand various loose odds and ends of
business scattered about in Government
bureaus. What is needed is not an ex-
tension of the Government machine,
but more order and system in the con-
flicting Government bureaus. Some of
the numerous bureaus and commissions
could be abolished to the decided advan-
tage ofthe public service.—Record.
Nicholas.
saw the accident and shouted to several.
men going over the river in a boat to:
A Pathetic Romance.
The Story Revealed by the Discovery of
a Skeleton in a Cave.
Editor Kauffman of the Chester Valley
Union, and W. W. Potts, of Warwick,
superintendent of one of the extensive
granite quarriesat Falls of French Creek,
tell one of the strangeststories on record,
and vouch forits entire authenticity.
This is & wild and romantic region about
twelve miles from Valley Forge, where
through a large area immense granite
boulders are piled in all sorts of fantastic
shapes and which in the earlier history,
of the state was a hiding place for rob
bers and wild beasts. Recently while a
new quarry was being opened at Falls
of French Creek, a cave was discovered
with a skeleton in it. A green glass
bottle was found alongside the skeleton,
and Mr. Potts took possession of it. In
the evening at his home he opened it and
found a manuscript, faded and discolor-
ed by time. The manuscript is address-
ed to Miss Virginia Randolph, of Rich-
mond, Virginia. He had parted from
her but a short time before to rejoin his
command, having been home to be cur-
ed of a wound. The writer signs himself
Arthur L. Carrington of the same place
and states that he was with Washington
at Valley Forge in 1778. He goes on to
say that he was sent out on a foraging
expedition to the neigborhood of French
Creek, when he received word that the
British had sent a considerable force to
head him off. The writer says that his men
took refuge with freinds while he made
his way to the cave where he had hid-
den before. Tt was marked by a rock
just over the entrance, so nicely balanc-
ed that a man could move it slightly
with one hand. y
The fleeing patriot took shelter inside
and had hardly done so when the enemy
came near and fired three shots after his
retreating men. The concussion must
have destroyed the balance of the stone
above the entrance, for it fell and held
the writer a prisoner. When convinced
that he must die he wrote the letter ex-
plaining his situation and eloquently
rotesting his love for his sweetheart.
The date of the manuscript is May 20,
1778. The letter relates hus futile efforts
to dig his way out through the walls of
solid rock, how he hallooed in the vain
hope that some one wonld hear him un-
til his voice was completely worn out; of
his hunger and finally of the symptoms
of the return of a fever through which
he had passed, which he welcomed as
likely to hasten his release from suffering.
Mr Potts says that he wrote to an old
friend in Richmond, and that this friend
sent him word that his grandmother’s
maiden name had been Randolph, and
thatin an old family burying ground,
near her house, was a monument with
this inscription. Died of a broken heart,
on the 1st of March, 1780, Virginia
candidates as they know to be their
triends, without feas of corporation or
political intimidation.
A A Y=" ——
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
Philipsburg Pickings.
James Cole has removed his shop from the
store building to his residence in Barnes’
building.
The Misses Birdie and Ella Switzer, and
Misses Florence and Miriam Gray are at Chau-
taqua.
J. R. Speer, of Pittsburgh, has taken charge
of the brokerage establishment of C. M. Keon,
who has gone to Altoona.
The ground for the erection of Mr. J. M.
George's new residence has been broken.
It will be one of the finest buildings in the
Third ward.
Rev. B.B. Henshey, pastor of the Baptist
church, has been granted a three weeks’ vaca-
tion, and is now enjoying himself in Bald Ea-
gle and Blair county.
We cannot see the consistency of cleaning
the gutters in our town when the dirt there-
from is allowed to remain standing in piles on
the streets, to be sooner or later washed back
again.
Messrs. R. B. Wigton & Son have purchased
the last of the old school buildings, which
stoad on the Seventh street side, and have men
at work tearing it down. It is then intended
to convert it into two tenement houses.
The mammoth new building to be erected
by the I. O. O. F., on the site of Brinton, Dun-
can & Barnes’ old stand,has been let to Messrs.
J. W. Jones & Co. It will be a structure that
will be an ornament to that section of town.
Albert Walton, book-keeper for the Vietor®
and Acme collieries, and Miss Annie, daagh-
ter of W. E. Burchfield, were married Tues-
day. They are two of Philipsburg’s best
young people, and we wish them a happy and
prosperous journey through life.
The Hope fire company’s new trumpet is a
“dandy.” Two of Philipsburg’s young women
deserve the credit of raising by subseription
the necessary amount (60) to purchase the in-
strument. It is made of silver, with gold
lined bell and mouth-piece.
Ground has been broken for the erection of
the new brick building of the P. E. L., G. P. &
H. Co., and work upon it will be pushed rap-
idly toward completion. The contract for the
main building has not as yet been let, but
Jones & Landon have the contract for the foun
dation, boilers and machinery.
The latter parg of last week John M. Hale,
Esq., Miss Julia Hale, Mr. and Mrs. John A.
Mull, accompanied by the latter's sons, Law-
rence, Reuben and Nathan, and Robert F.
Mull, assistant cashier of the Philipsburg
Bank, left for New York city, where they took
a steamer on Saturday for Europe.
Thos. R. Carboy, who lay in bed at his home
in Houtzdale for fourteen weeks with an attack
of bilious fever, came down to Philipsburg to-
day to see how the firm of T. R. Carboy & Co.,
Randolph, aged 21 years and 9 days. | painters, of this place, were getting along. He
Faithful unto death.” ”’
This freind also sends Mr. Potts two
old letters written 110 years ago to Alice
Peyton by Rachael Randolph, in which
the disappearance of the young man is
referred to and the approaching end of
the young girl. Mr. Potts concludes his
statement as follows. “Arthur Carring-
ton’s remains are about to be removed,
and will soon rest by theside of his
beloved in Virginia.” Mr. Potts says
that he has the original manuscript, and
Editor Kauffman gives the entire story
a strong editorial endorsement.
Powderly’s Bugle Blast.
The Master Workman Scores Presi-
dent Corbin.
Scraxtow, Pa. July 16.—General
Master Workman Powderly, of the
Knights of Labor, has written a scath-
ing criticism of Austin Corbin’s course
in proscribing members of labor organ-
izations from obtaining employment at
the Reading works, and it will be pub-
lished in this week’s issue of the Journal.
In reviewing the history of this corpor-
ation Mr. Powderly declares that Mollie
Maguireism was the legitimate offspring
of the insubordination to constitutional
authority which the Reading Company
pursues to-day. He says the Reading
Company is an outlaw, and in defiance
of constitutional law continues to do
two kinds of business when the consti-
tution of Pennsylvania expressly for-
bids it. Mr. Corbin goes still further,
continues Mr. Powderly: ‘“Hebuys up
the Reading Iron works, and then tells
the men that he will have no more
organization among workmen. This
is one of the best acts of Mr. Corbin’s
life. If he will only follow it up by
telling the men that they will have to
vote the ticket he votes in future, go to
the church he prescribes and sneeze
when he takes snuff hie will be doing a
great service to the workingmen.
LEGISLATION THAT PROVED WORTHLESS.
“For fourteen years,” says Mr. Pow-
derly, “the men of Pennsylvania have
allowed the State they are in duty
bound to protect to be plundered of its
richest possessions in order that the
tribe of Corbin may fatten on the spoils,
and they are now being repaid with in-
terest” Speaking of the “labor legis-
lation’ of past years, the General Mas-
ter Workman says it was not worth
the paper it was printed on. The rem-
edy for the great evil is in a judicious
use of the ballot. Hesays: We can-
not compel obedience to the Constitu-
tion of Pennsylvania while men can be
browbeaten at the polls and compelied
to vote as the corporation boss, the
political boss and the rum boss dictate.
What we require is a secret ballot, one
by which the man who is partially free
may become in truth a freeman. How
many of the citizens of Pennsylvania
will raise their hands with mine when
they read this, and pledge themselves
not to ask for another measure of re-
form at the coming session of the Leg-
islature except the passage of some
such system of ballot reform as the
Australian system ?”’
BALLOT REFORM THE BATTLE-CRY,
Mr. Powderly makes an earnest plea
to the Knights of Labor to take up this |
question at once and support no candi-
date for the Legislature who will not |
pledge himself to vote for the passage of |
a ballot reform bill, He is strongly im-
pressed with the belief that there can be
no real labor legislation until such time
as workingmen are free to support such
had quite a serious time of it. We are glad he
is on a fair way to a speedy recovery.
Mrs. Simeon Doyle, a resident of Ninth
street, has started an ice cream parlor in her
residence. She is a widow with a couple of
little children. She has a difficult time in get,
ting along, and should be liberally patronized
by not only those living in the Third ward,but
it would be a nice little walk for down town
people to go up there evenings.
Mr. Gowland, one of Philipsburg’s old and
most esteemed citizens, who has been ill for
several weeks, died at his late residence on
Spruce street, between Second and Railroad
streets, on Wednesday night of last week. He
leaves a wife and several children to mourn
his departure, among whom are Burgess John
Gowland, Mrs. Thornton Dunkle, Frank Gow-
land and Fred Gowland. He was aged about
65 years. The friends of the deceased have
our sympathy in their sad affliction. The re-
mains were interred in the new cemetery on
Saturday afternoon.
Philipsburg had a real hot hire on Saturday
afternoon, which burned the livery stables re-
cently occupied by Danie! Paul, a house ad-
joining it, badly damaged the dwelling occu-
pied by Thomas Ashcroft, and the Central Ho-
tel. The fire originated in the livery stable,
and" by the time the alarm was given the
flames got too much of a headway for the
fire companies to do much good in saving the
stable. The water supply was not sufficiently
strong enough for the companies to do any
work at all, until the engine got to the creek.
The streams from the Water company’s plugs
had not force enough to throw the water up to
the second story of the Central Hotel, and the
firemen were compelled to get upon the house
and let a tiny little stream of water run down
over the roofs. If the people living in that vi-
cinity depended upon the Water company’s
works to supply water enough to protect their
buildings they would have been badly left. It
was fortunate the creek was convenient that
day, else that whole section of Philipsburg
would have been destroyed. A high wind was
prefailing at the time. Both the Reliance
and Hope worked hard, and deserve the sin-
cere thanks of all those living in that vicinity.
The livery stable belonged to the Lloyd Hotel
property, and a Mr. Walther, of Philadelphia
had just purchased the hotel property of Mr.
S. B. Rowe the day before.
SCENE
Married.
PARSONS -Mc¢GINLEY.—At the M. E. parson-
age, Bellefonte, Pa., July 4, 188), by Rev. VW.
A. Houck, Samuel B. Parsons, of Unionville,
Pa., and Myrtlé McGinley, of Julian Furnace.
GINGERICH—BIDDLE.—At the same place
and by the same. July 9, 1889, H. E. Giger-
ich, of Coburn, Pa, and Kate BiddPe, of Sco-
tia, Pa.
MECHER—RHINE.—At Rebersburg, Pa., on
July 5,1889, by W. J. Carlin, J. P., Jerome
Mecher, of Clinton county, and Mary L.
Rhine, of Wolf’s Store, Centre county, Pa.
New Advertisements.
ALUABLE FARM FOR SALE.
—The subscriber offers at private sale
his farin, located five miles east of Bellefonte,
on the east side of Nittany Valley,
0——CONTAINING 150 ACRES,—o0
about 110 of which are cleared and in the
highest state of cultivation, the balance well
covered with thrifty young timber. There are
EXCELLENT FARM BUILDINGS
of all kinds, an ‘abundance of Fruit, two
springs of good water and two large gisterns
upon the premises, Sghools, churches ‘and
markets handy, "This farm is one of x
productive in thewalley, 4s in excelle
tion, and will be: sold on';easy terms, :
of health reason for selling. i
iy
For further particulars address
ber at either Bellefonte or Zion,
on the premises.
34 28 3m* GEORGE KA!
:
DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.—
Letters of administration on the estate
of Patrick Kelly, deceased, late of Snow Shoe
fownshi®, having been granted to the under-
signed, he requests all persons kuowing them-
selves indebted to said estate to said estate to
make immediate payment, and those having
claims against the same to present them duly
authenticated for settlement.
MICHAEL KELLY,
34 27 6t Snow Shoe, Pa.
DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. —
Letters of “administration on the es-
tate of Henry Markle, deceased, late of Potter
1oVnshin, having been granted to the under-
signed, he requests all persons knowing them-
selves indebted to said estate to make pay-
ment, and those having claims against the
same to present them duly authenticated for
settlement. EMORY McAFEE;
31 27 6t Stormstown, Pa.
A DMINISTRATORS' NOTICE.—
Letters of administration on the estate
of U. E. Sellers deceased, late of Patton
township, having been granted to the under-
signed they request all persons knowing them-
selves indebted to said estate to make imme-
diate payment, and those having claims
against the same to present them duly authen-
ticated for settlement.
ELMER E. ROLLER,
34-22 6t Filmore, Pa
UDITOR'S NOTICE.— In the
Orphans’ Court of Centre county. No-
tice is hereby given that the undersigned, an
auditor appointed by the Orphans’ Court of
Centre county to hear and pass upon the ex-
ceptions filed to the account of Sy G. Uzzle,
guardian of Clara Mulholland et. al, minor
children of R. Mulholland, late of Burnside
township, deceased,and restate said account
according to his findings, will meet the parties
interested for the purpose of his appointment
at his office in Bellefonte, Pa., on Tuesday, the
30th day of July, 1589, at 10 o'clock a. m., when
and where all persons interested may attend,
J. C. HARPER,
Auditor.
Sales.
OR SALE.
CHOICE BUILDING LOTS AT STATE
COLLEGE.
The heirs of Robert Foster, deceased, offer
at private sale a number of most desirable
building lots, along the main road at State
College, at prices less than half that asked for
less desirable lots adjoining. Price, $150. Ad-
dress. R. M. FOSTER,
34 6 tf State Collage, Pa.
HOICE BUILDING LOTS.
Messrs. Shoemaker and Scott offer for
sale seven building lots located on east side of
Thomas street, 50x100 fect.
Also, thirty-five lots located on east side of
‘public road leading from Bellefonte to Belle-
fonte Furnace, 50x175 feet.
Also, sixty lots on Halfmoon Hill, 50x150 feet.
For further information call on or address,
R. H. BOAL,
34 4 tf Bellefonte, Pa.
ARM FOR SALE!
In order to settle up their estate the
heirs will offer at public sale the very desira~
ble property, known as the
R. M. FOSTER FARM,
adjoining the State College, Centre county.
The property consists of 2
140 ACRES, MORE OR LESS,
upon which is erected a good bank barn,
dwelling house, and all necessary outbuildings.
It has excellent cisterns, choice fruit, good
foposs, and every foot of ground upon it is til-
able,
It adjoins the State College farm on the
west, and is one of the most desirably located
farms in Centre county. Terms will be made
easy or to suit purchaser.
For particulars address
THOMAS FOSTER,
222 North Third street,
Philadelphia, Pa.
34 3tf
3 YALUABLE REAL ESTATE
—AT—
0 PUBLIC SALE.-—o0
By virtue of an order issued out of the Or-
phans’ Court of Centre county, there will be
exposed to public sale upon the premises, near
Linden Hall, Centre county, on
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1889,
the following described valuable real estate,
late the property of Henry Meyer, deceased :
No. 1—Beginning at an elm tree, thence by
Curtins’ lands north 1814 degrees west 17 6-10
perches to stones, thence by tract No. 2, herein
described, north 714 degreas west 38 4-10 per-
ches to walnut, thence by same north 63% de-
grees west 21 210 perches to post, thence by
same north 401; degrees west 39 3-10 perches
to middle of bridge, thence south 76 degrees
west 111 5-10 perches to middle of run, thence
along same south 1-4 degree east 38 2-10 per-
ches to post, thence by Curtins’ south 73 de-
srees east 27 8-10 perches to white oak, thence
y same south 65 degrees east 40 perches to
stones, thence by same south 78 degrees east
11 perches to stones, thence by same north 8014
degrees east 27 perches to the place of begin-
ning, containing SEVENTEEN (17) ACRES
AND 122 PERCHES, thereon erected a GRIST
MILL, STORE ROOM AND DWELLING
HOUSE combined, blacksmith tenant house
and stable, and mill house and stable.
No. 2—Beginning at stones, thence by land
of Curtinsg’ north [814 degrees west 36 9-10
perches to white oak, thence by same north
i8ls degrees east 89 2-10 perches to stones,
thence by same north 21 degrees west 7 per-
ches to post, thence by land of Daniel Hess
south 58Y4 degrees west 53 perches to post,
thence by same north 2114 degrees west 13 6-10
perches to post, thence by same south 60 de-
grees west 34 4-20 perches to post, thence by
same north 28 degrees west 17 7-10 perches to
an elm, thence by same south 83 degrees west
23 perches to a post, thence by same south 67
degrees west 305-16 perches to a post, thence
by same 28 degrees east 13 6-10 perches to post,
thence by land of said decedent south 405 de-
grees east 39 3-10 perches to stones, thence by
same south 6314 degrees east 21 2-10 perches to
a walnut, thence by same south 71}4 degrees
east 38 4-10 perches to the place of beginning,
containing 36 ACRES and 15 PERCHES, there-
on erected a LARGE BRICK DWELLING
HOUSE, tenant house, barn and other out-
buildings. i
No. 3—Bounded on the north by lands of Ja-
cob Sparrs’ estate, on the east by lands of Cy-
rus Furst, on the south by lands of Eliza Cur-
tin, and on the west by lands of Wm. MeFar-
lane, containing 200 ACRES, more or less,
thereon erected a TWO-STORY DWELLING
HOUSE, bank barn and other outbuildings.
No. 4—Beginning at stones, thence by lands
of Wm. H. Groh south 34 degrees east 1325
perches to stones, thence north 63 1-4 degrees
east 93 2-10 perches to stones, thence by lands
of Cyrus Furst north 1124 degrees west 99 8-10
erches to stones, thence along lands of John
import south 67% degrees west 1814 perches,
thence south 9% degrees east 7 perches,thence
south 6714 degrees west 26 perches, thence
north 18% degrees west 8 perches, thence
north 581% degrees west 26 perches to the place
of poping, containing 52 ACRES and 78
PERCHES and allowance.
No. 5—Bounded on the north by lands of
James Kimport, on the west by londs of Cyrus
Furst, on the south by lands of John Wagner,
and on the east by lands of Peter Hurst, con-
taining 190 ACRES, more or less, thereon ercc-
ted a DWELLING HOUSE, bank barn and
other outbuildings.
No. 6—Bounded on the north by lands of
Peter Hurst, on the west by lands of Cyrus
Furst, on the south by Tussey Mountain, and
on the east by lands of Peter Hurst, contain-
ing 90 ACRES, more or less.
All of the above properties are in the best of
condition. Tract No. 1 is one of the best busi-
ness stands in the county, the mill, store and
smith shop all having an excellent run of cus-
tom, and located in the heart of one of the
richest and most productiva valleys in the
State. No. 2 is a pleasant homestead, and Nos.
3 and 5 are excellent farms. All are located
near schools; churches, post office and railway
station ; have plenty of fruit, water, &e.
Sale to begin at 10 a. m. Refreshments wi'l
be served to those attending.
Terms oF SaLe—One-third of the purchase
money to be paid in cash on confirmation of
sale, one-third in one year and the balance in
two years with interest, deferred payments to
be secured by bond and mortgage on the
premises,
J. H. & C: C. MEYER,
8t 27 Administrators.