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Terms 8!
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Bellefonte, Pa., February 27, 1891.
GRAY MEEK, - - EniTon
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Democratic County Committee, 1891.
see W. 8. Galbraith
... Joseph Wise
John Dunlap
. John 'I'. Lee
. H. A. Moore
A. M. Butler
... A.C. Musser
James A. Lukens
... C. A. Faulkner
A J Gorton
.... Bo M.Griest
Eugen Meeker
. Harvey Benner
Bellefonte, N. W....
“ S. VW...
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Centre Hall ' orough.
Howard Borough...
Milesburg Borough.
Milheim Borough...
Philiosburg, 1st W.,
1 2d W
3d W..
Boggs, sn . Philip Confer
et 2d T. F. Adams
-“ P... G. H Leyma
College, E. P .. W. H. Mokle
o =P. James Foster
N. J. McCloskey
Daniel Dreibelbis
Geo. W. Keichline
.. Chas. W. Fisher
James P. Grove
Isaac M. Orndorf
Geo. B. Shaffer
. Eilis Lytle
J. W. Keller
.T. Leathers
... Henry Hale
Alfred Bitner
Curtin .
Ferguson, E. P...
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spend
Haines, E P
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Haltmoon...
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Marion. John J. Shaffer
Miles, James P. Frank
Patton .. P. A. Sellers
Pénn., J. C. Stover
Potter, N. P . 8. W. Smith
‘e S. P . Jas. B. Spangler
Rush, N. P.. Jas. Dumbleton
© 8.P..., Hugh McCann
Snow Shoe, W. P. Thomas Turbidy
“
EP .. John D. Brown
Spring, 8. P....... Jerry Donovan
€ N:P . James Carson
o W. P. «.. EE. Ardery
Taylor... . W.T. Hoover
Chas. H. Rush
. D. A. Dietrick
.... O.D.Eberts
R, Chairman.
Sr ———————
Legislative Apportionment,
The present Legislature will be re
quired to make a new apportionment of
tire members of the ITouse of Repre-
sentatives to accord with the popula
The New
tion as shown by the recent census.
The constitution the
members shall be apportioned among
requires that
the counties on a ratio obtained by di-
viding the population of the State by
200. The census of 1890 reports the
population to he 5,238,014, the division
of which by 200 gives 26,200 as the
ratio of representation. Lvery county
is entitled to one representative without
regard to the extent of its population.
For every ratio there shall be a repre-
sentative, and also one where there is
a fraction excee ling halt a ratio. Cen-
tre county, for example, has a popula-
tion of 43,269. This does not amount
to two fall ratios, which would be 52,-
580. Bat as the fraction is more than
half a ratio, she will retain her two re.
presentatives. The ratio is safficient-
ly high to deprive a number of coun-
ties of one member. The counties that
will each lose a member are Adams,
Bedford, Bradford, Chester, Clarion,
Columbia, Crawtord, Huntingdon, In-
diana, Lancaster, La wrenee, Mercer,
Schuylkill,Somerset and Wayne. Alle-
gheny will
from 16 to 20, and each of the follow.
ing counties wiil gain one: Blair, Clear-
gain four members, going up
field, Jefferson, Lackawanna, Luzerre,
and Northumberland, Piiladelphia
will retain her present number of repre-
sentatives, 39.
Vill Have His Hands Fall.
If it be true, as announced, that it is
the intention of M. S. Quay to sue for
libel every newspeper that published the
charges of treasury embezzlement
against him, he will have his hands
full and will give the lawyers a big job.
The alleged libel has heen published
in all the political newspapers in the
land except those of a partisan Republi-
can stripe. When Mr. Quay shall bring
his suits he will have to employ about
half of the lawyers in the country, and
the sheriffs and deputies all over this
land will be kept busy serving writs and
making arrests, and after the offon.
dersshall have been convicted the jails
will be crammed with editors undergo-
ing punishment for having libeled the
pure and honest junior Senator from
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Hardly Worth a Denial.
The parties who got up the report
that Grover CLEVELAND was about to
announce that he would not be a can-
didate for the Presidency, coupled with
it the story that he would appoint Ex-
Secretary WrITNuY his political leg-
atee. Itis hardly necessary for Mr.
WiinNey to take the trouble to deny
that CLevELaND has withdrawn from
the Presidential contest of 1892. Any
one could see at a glance that the re-
port was the work of an enemy and in
the interest of some other candidate,
Whoever eventually may be the nom-
inee it is very clear at this time that
Mr. CLevELAND 18 more talked about
in connection with the nomination
than all other candidates put together:
Coucerning the statements that the
Ex-President is not a candidate for the
1892 coatest Ex-Secretary WaITNEY
said to a New York Herald reporter,
Mr. Cleveland is not a candidate in my opin-
ion, except this far: He is committed to the
fight. He will never be sati-fied until tariff
reform wins. He will do every thing he can to
aid the tariff reform fight, and it naturally
keeps him to the front. He is a candidate a
good deal more for the fight than he is for the
Presidency. When a President takes his seat
in 1888, but conveniently lost tor two
as the result of a tariff reform victory Mr.
Cleveland will be satisfied, whoever it is.
Meanwhile, he isn’t talking about declining,
and I am not in the business of pulling other
candidates out or of putting myself in the race
for the Presidency.
This ought to settle the report that
Mr. WrHiTNEY has been by
CLEVELAND as succeeding to his claim
named
to the nomination.
rw ———
~——On Wednesday Mr. WHERRY of
the House, at Harrisburg, reported fa-
vorably the bill providing for the hold-
ing of a constitutional convention rela-
tive to a reform of the ballot system.
This shouid be pushed through to a
successful consummation, but in the
meanwhile the reform ballot bill that
is before the Legislature shonld be |
passed for immediate use until the con-
stitutional convention ean do its work. |
EE TLIC 8 Frey
ihe License Graduation Bill.
The bill providing for the issuing
of |
liquor licenses by the courts on the ba-
sis of population, not more than one
license for every 700 inhabilants, has
been reported in the Senate with a fav- |
orable recommendation by the com-
mittee which had it under considera- |
tien. This is the first attempt that has’
been made to regulate the granting of :
licenses by graduation. The bill, as |
we anderstand it. does not require the |
courts to grant licenses until the ratio
of one license to every 700 of popula-
tion is filled, but it restrains the grant-
ing beyond that ratio. It would seem
to be a restraint upon the evils of an
excessive liquor traffic,
Congressman Wik, of Illinois,
has presented a resolution asking for
the impeachment of Speaker Ree,
the charge against him being founded
upon the wanton and despotic charac-
ter of his official conduct, The Demo-
cratic members have more; reason to
vo'e for such a resolution than tor the
customary resolution of thanks, -
—— President Harrison has select.
ed Ex-Governor Foster, of Ohio, 2s
the successor of the late Secretary
Wixpox in the Treasury Department,
It was reported that he would make
this selection and therefore it is no sur-
prise. The new Secretary is a man cf
considerable political and business ex-
perience, but will scarcely size up to
his predecessor whose place he has
been selected to fill. He belongs to
the Ohio school of Republican politi-
cians; has always been considered
tricky, and is familiarly known in his
State as “Calico Charley.” It is be-
lieved that Lis appointment has been
made in the interest of McKINLEY, 28
opposed to ForRAKER, and means the
Pennsylvania. This alleged intention
of Mr. Quay does not, however, alarm
the New York World which challenges
the Senator to bring his action of libel,
and claiws to be anxious to Lave the
matter tesied in the courts,
—Tle retail merchants of Green-
ville, Mercer county, have a co-opera-
tive organization that might be imitat-
ed with profit in every town in the
‘commonwealth, and city too. Its pur-
pose is to inform each other in regard
£0 people who will not pay their debts.
A man who refuses to square his ac
counts is made known to all the mem-
bers of the association, and thencefor.
award his name is Deunis with them
when it comes to a request to “put ig
down on the slate.”
——An Erie county suggestion is
that a number of neighboring counties
unite with it and build a workhouse
for their joint use. Erie has a surplus
of $90,000 in her tregsury, and is said
to be willing to devote part or all of it
to that purpose. The Oil City Blizzard
thinks the suggestion a good one, add-
ing that jail imprisonment for vaga-
bonds is no punishment.
|
about.
| attack on the cormorants who have
i
| that city a medium of municipal rob -
, bery. It is wonderful that the plunder
perpetrated in that job was tolerated as
tensive pile as ome of the leading
nomination of McKINLEY as the next
Republican candidate for Governor in
Ohio.
Governor Parrison has{signed
the concurrent resolution authorizing
the appointment of a commission to
revise the mining laws affecting the
bituminous coal regions of the state.
There is no field where reforms are
more needed, and the Governor has
done well in helping to bring them
——The Prese and other papers
of Philadelphia have commenced an
been making the big pablic building of
long as it has been.
CuarLes Foster, of Ohio, the
new Secretary of the Treasury, is a
millionaire who accumulated his ex-
managers of the Standard oil monopo-
ly. As the financial minister of a
A Suspicious Measure, i
California's experience should be a
lesson to those who want oni Siate 10
go into the school book publishing
business. The Colifornian enterprise
may have been profitable to the parties
that had a share of the “divvy,” but so
far as the interest of the State was con-
cerned it was a perfect failure. It fail-
ed both as to price and quality of the
work. The books were so poorly made
that they would hardly last a month ;
so ill-adapted to school use that there is
an universal demand for their entire and
immediate revision; and sodear in price
that two successive State superintend- |
eats have certified that cheaper and bet-
ter books can bebought at regular rates
of private publishers. A report, made
years, shows that down to October 1,
1887, the school books, which brought
$32,237.85, actually cost the State B07,
465.07, making the loss to that time,
in actual expenses, $35,126.19.
A similar result may be expected
from a similar project proposed at Har-
risburg, for it is quite certain that who-
ever is pushing this thing he or they |
care less for the interest of the State
and the advantage of the schools than
they care for their own profit.
PE ———
The Crawford county alms. |
house is said to be in ahout as deplor-
able a condition as the Republican |
party of that county, TJamus Pastor.
tous and Isaac Cure, two grand jarors
who visited the institution recently, say
it has not been whitewashed for years;
thatit is dirty; that offensive odors
abound; that the drinking water is con-
taminated by drainage from the cow |
yards, and that the outhouses are in a
terrible condition
1
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ine
ing
— Washington's birthday hav been
duly celebrated, next in order will be
the payment of our respects to eood SAINT
Patrick. Each of these worthies was the
Father of his Country, ard it is hard todo- |
termine whether Wasmixaron did a |
biager thing for America by driving out
the British than Sav Patrick did for
Ireland by expelling the snakes,
rere ———
-—It is for the Legislature to de !
termine whether Pennsylvania shall
have honest elections.
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Farmers or Professional Honors—Re-
Ply to Judge Yerkes and Other
Usurpers,
Centre Havr, Pa., Feb, 13, 1301,
I have recently received numerous
letters and newspaper clippings from pa- |
trons setting forth what certain lawyers |
Judges and other professional men had
said at farmers’ meetings, asking we
to answer the same. Here is one cred-
ited to Judge Yerkes, of Bucks county:
“Gentlemen, the real cause of your
depression lies west of the Mississippi, |
The Grange influence of the Eastern
States is la~gely responsible for its
growth. Only a few years ago they of |
the East responded to the ¢:1! of their |
fellows of the West and joined in heir
demands, and contributed their power |
in'congress and elsewhere, in donating
the public lands for free homestead, to
actual settlers and railroad companies,
who in turn donated them to forejon |
immigrants and cheap laborers. Fi. |
nally the products of all this munifi- |
cence were brought to your home
markets by these fostered and com pet- |
ing railroads, and as the result of the
Granger cry of government control a
reducticn of railroad charges. The
farmers of the East are not interested
in the reduction of freights from the
Weat when the products of that section |
are brought to compete with theirs in
their own markets and in all the mark. |
ets of the world. Those who joined |
these demands are reaping the fruits. |
Have a care that yon do not repeat |
the mistake. The Farmers’ Alliance i
of the broad South and the great West |
are more powerful than yan can hope |
to become. Sitnated so far inland |
from the great seaport are you sure |
their desires will satisfy your wants ?”
Itis a great pity that men who
would aspire to the dignity of Judges |
of courts, with broad and liberal views
of the law and the spirit of the free in- |
stitutions of a great country, should |
shrivel up into such narrow contracted |
views of the institutions and social re-
lations of a great country like ours.
If these judges know anything they
know that charters for transportation
companies emanate from the several
States, and that they are subject to
State coutrol, that a law controlling
freight charges in Illinois has no au.
thority over freight chargesin Pennsyl-
vania excepting so far as it comes un-
der the Interstate Commerce law brought
about by the Grange, which prevents a
greater charge for a short haul than
the longer, and even if all claimed were
true it would apply to our swn State as
well as west of the Mississippi. These
liberal minded judges had better tear
up our raitroads and internal improve-
ments and turn the wheels of progress
and ¢'vilization backwards to the ages
from whence they draw their broaden.
ed inspiration,
Notwithstanding we have had much
smaller crops in proportion to popula-
tion since the crash 1n 1873 than we
bad from 1865 to 1873, prices have been
filty percent. lower ; not owing to over-
production either, for every bushel of
wheat and every pound of beef has
been needed for sustenace. Therefore
low prices are not owing to the conven-
iences of railroads, nor to overproduc-
|
monopoly administration he 15 the
right mao in the right place.
| causes, and the Grange h
tion, but must be attributed to other
; rates of interest have contracted in the
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| conut of their salaries and tree passes, |
; your talking, or did yon compel the
| farmers to take a back seat to listen to
‘minded citizens? What claims have
these men
I sighted policy.
lowed to dominate their own meetings
| sist themsels es,
| 792, as follows : Rebersburg 150, Centre
{ Hall 90, Pine Grove Mills 180, Shiloh
| 102, Zion 110 and Boalsburg 160.
, & mail carrier in Lock Haven, was ar-
| ters that were in his charge.
reacy” at the rate of $4,000,000 per
month until we had the panic of 1873,
in order to force a corner in money for
the benefit of the banks, but still not
satisfied, demonetization of silver must
fol'o -, which sent the price of silver
down, giving the debtor classes of In-
diaand Russia the advantage in the
Huropean markets over the American
farmer, the India and Russian farmer
receiving twenty to thirty cents more
for Lis wheat in silver currency than
the American farmer for his gold car-
reacy. But while all this shrinking of |
values has heen going on in the Unit-
ed States on account of this selfish
imbecile policy of our G verminent,
neither the farm mortgages nor their
least and now it takes two bushels of
wheat and two heads of cattle to pay a
debt that had the Government lef; the
currency of the country undisturbed
half that amount would have paid and
without injury to any class, as the pop-
ulation and business of the country
would so gradually have adjusted itself
as not to have disturbed the financial
relations of the country,
The farmers in the Grange under-
stand the situation if
|
lawyers and !
judges don’t, or do not want to on ac
going further than when the farmer on.
ly gets half price for his products as |
thereby the professional men can live
cheaper. But farmers, why com plain ?
What right had you to invite these
men to be orators at your farmers’
meetings ? Had you no tarmers to do
the narrow diatribes and misrepresen-
tations belittling the farmer and his or
ganization to the shame and indigna-
tion of all intelligent farmers and fair
upon the farmers? Did
they ever invite the farmer to their
town meetings to address their people
that you should fawn at their feet and
bestow upon them honors that belong
to your own class?
Such a policy is a usurpation and a
dishonor to the farmiag class, and you
are reaping the fruits of your short-
If farmers are not al-
by the managers then they should
dominate the management.
tespectfully.
LeoNarp Ruoxg.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
Overseer Schofield is farnishing
employment to all those who are asking
charity of the town. He is havirg
stones broken for use op the streets, and
pays fair wages to all who will thus as-
The total number of singers who
attended Prof. P. H. Meyer's musical
conventions during the past winter was
The First National Bank of
Bellefonte is among the petitioners
ask for the removal of the Guarantee
Trust and Safe Deposit Company of
Philadelphia from the assigneeship of
the estate of Robert Hare Powell on the
charge of grossly fraudulent mismanage
ment. The estate is worth $4,000,000.
——Last Wednesday Tsaac Crotzer,
rested for abstracting money from let-
Inspector
Macready of Philadelphia made the ar-
rest. The circumstance that money had
been missed for the pastten months led
to the suspicion that Crotzer was doing
this bad work. After he was arrested
he acknowledged his guilt.
Maj. Jno. A. Wolf, of Philips-
burg, was in town Wednesday and trom
his appearance we were led; to believe
that the smiling countenance and happy
manner, with which politicians are wont
to beguile the voters, was not affected,
but that it is genuine. The Maj. seem-
ed as pleasant as a ark and felt as
though his library would be incomplete
without the WATCHMAN so he carried a
receipt, up to some time in "92, away
with him.
Hu~e ON TrursDAY.—Harry Marsh
was hung yesterday, at Ebensburg for
the murder of Clara Shakeshaft, which
occurred at Galitzln last July. He was
paying attention to his victim at the
time of the murder and there was no
apparent reason for his taking her life.
His age was about 27 and he was Eng-
lish by birth. He took his fate cooly,
smoking a cigar while examining the
scaffold which he said wasa good job.
NEARLY A Farar Fire.—Last Oc-
tober Geo. D. Johnston and §. family
moved from this county to Wistar,
Clinton county, where he took charge
of the shingle mill operated by J. TF,
Lucas & Son, of Moshanon. After
working hard all winter Mr. Johnson
and his family were awakened on Sun-
dey morning, Feb. 15th, by the smell of
smoke, They arose quickly, but the
fire had gained such headway that the
only eseaps was through the windows.
J. B. Swartz, of Beech Creek was badly
burned about the head, face and hands
and teet, and H. H. Johnston had his
hands burned quite seriously, Other-
wise all of the inmates of the house, five
men and Mr. Johnstons family of four,
escaped uninjured, except to be slightly
frost bitten. Nearly all their clothing
was burned in the fire the origin of
which is not known. We extend our
sympathy to Mr. Johnston and his
Tae CriNvoN CouNry Bribe
STEAL —After an investigation of the
ulleged overcharge for building county
bridges in Clinton county, the William.
sport Gazette § Bulletin comments as
follows :
After a careful examination of the
contracts the Auditors filed their report
wherein they hold the commissioners re-
sponsible for $16,163.55. This they
claimas the amount that was stolen
from the county treasury by their bridge
contracts and that Messrs. J. D. Engles,
John Grugen and H. B. Klechner wiil
be held responsible for the same.
This will make over $5,000 for each to
refund. Rather a large sum, but it is a
warning to other officials.
E. T. Gallagher who did the masonry
in this overcharged work is the same
man who was given the contract on the
Milesburg and Karthaus bridges by the
recent Centre county commissioners.
Mes 8S. S. Brair Dies.-—Our neigh-
boring town, Tyrone, was shocked on
Tuesday last to learn of the death of
Mrs. Samuel S. Blair the most estimable
wife of Supt. Blair, of the Tyrone Di-
vision of the Penna. Ruil-road. All of
Tuesday morning Mrs. Blair bad been
troubled with neuralgic pains in the
head, but in the afternoon she felt so
much better that, in company with her
| husband, she went down town to offer
her sympath’es to Mrs J. IL. Mitchell
who has lately been bereaved of her son,
She had been 1n Mrs. Mitehell’s house
but a few moments, when with a sob,
she was stricken with congestion of the
brain. A cot was procured and she was
carried to her home on Lincoln Avenue,
where, notwithstanding sll that science
could do, she passed peacefully away
about 10 o'clock p. m.
* The deceased whose maiden name was
Adeline Elizabeth Wolf, was born at
Gettysburg, Nov. 9th 1833. She was
married to Mr. Blair at Columbia, in
1859, and moved to her home in Tyrone
in 1873.
Surviving her are her husband and
four sons. The latter are Charles F.,
manager of Blair Bios’ coal interests,
Horace C., at present a student in the
law school of the University of Penn-
sylvania; Louis B., in charge of Blair
Bros’ mine at Retort, Pa.; and S. How-
ard, a student at Pennsylvania State
College.
She was a devout and practical
Christian, a devoted member of the
First Presbyterian church of Tyrone,
and an unselfish follower of the teach-
ings of Him in whom she bad long ago
placed her implicit faith and trust. That
her last illness overtook her when she
was engaged in the noble effort of bring-
ing a measure of comfort to a sorrowing
heart, is in itself a beautiful index to
ber character.
Brief funeral services will be conduct-
ed at the late residence of the deceased
this Friday afternoon at three o’clock,
by ber pastor Rev. J. R. Davies. The
remains will be laid to rest in Tyrone
cemetery.
A NATURAL PHENOMENON.——On the
road leading from Pleasant Gap to Zion
can be seen a freak of nature which has
been puzzling the heads of the people of
this county for the last ten days. Ttisa
miniature lake of water covering about
60 or 70 acres of the best land on the
farms of Messrs. Gentzell and Kauff-
man, about five miles from Bellefonte,
and as yet 1ts source is a profound mys-
tery. The water in the lake is clear
and cold and this fact gives rise to the
theory that the smail pond which is on
the Gentzell farm has become the vent
for some swollen underground current.
The lake lies in a natural basin about
one and one half miles from the foot of
Nittany mountain and in some places is
twenty feet in depth. On the surface
ofthe water the fences are floating, and
the road leading from Pleasant Gap to
Zion is completely submerged and alto-
gether impassable unless one takes to a
boat or concludes to swim it. Standing
at Mr. Gentzell’s house this pretty body
of water presents quite an attractive ap-
pearance. When the WATCHMAN re-
porter visited it the wind was just
strong enough to slightly rufile its sur-
face and the little white capped waves,
as they rippled on the shores which are
covered with green grain, made us feel
quite as if we had an inland sea.
Many theories are being advanced as |
to its cause, the most acceptable one being
that the recent rains caused the snow to
melt on the mountains near by, and the
water followed the trend of the rocks
into this depression. Another is that it
is simply the overflow of some under-
ground current which has been swollen
by the recent heavy rains and melting
snow.
Whatever the cause may be it
is a fuct that the lake has some-
thing of regularity about its appearance,
forit issaid by people who know, that
it has appeared every seven years for
about twenty-five years. At its first ap-
pearance it was somewhat larger than
itis now, but if mother nature should
decide to keep this basin permanently
for her tear drops she would be indebt-
ed to Messrs. Gentzell and Kauffman
for about sixty acres of their most arable
farm land.
At present the lake shows no sign of
as clearly ont-
lined it—*it is contraction of the cur-
family in their serious loss.
rise or decrease, though a slight fall was
noted about the middle of the week.
Two Deatus.—The people of Centre
Hall and vicinity were surprised to learn
of the sudden death of Mrs. D. A. Bocz-
er. which occurred at her home in that
place, on Wednesday evening last. She
had been ill only since Monday and hr
demise was a great shock to her many
friends. Before ber marriage to Mr.
Evozer she was Miss Bessie Boal, ore of
the most charming young girls in Penn's
Valley and was loved and admired by
all who knew her.
A husband and three small children
are left to mourn the loss of a faithful
wife and loving mother. ”
Mrs. George Nearhoot, of Centre
Hall, died the same evening of cancer.
She had been suffering with this dread
disease for a long time and death came
to relieve her forever of her sufferings,
Her death is much lamented by a large
number of friends.
The funerals of both the deceased will
take place to-morrow, Saturday.
Tne TEMPERANCE PETITIONS,—~Yes-
terday morning, Thursday, the petitions
against the granting of license in Belle-
fonte and Philipsburg were filed in the
Prothcnotary’s office. The number of
signers in each ward is as follows:
Against the Bush House license, 157 S.
W., 270 N. W., and 65in the W. W.
Against the Brockerhoff House license :
1578. W., 67 W. W. ard 270 N. W.
Against the Garman House license:
260 N. W.,157S. W.and 67 W. W.
Against G. Haag, Cummings House:
1578. W., 67 W. W. and 270 N.W.
In Philipsburg the remonstrance was
made against the granting of any lic-
censes, whatever, and in the 1st ward it
had 78 signers. while 93 people in the
20d ward attached their signatures to
the paper. The number of signers it
bad in the 8rd ward we did not take
time to count but judge that there are
about 75 or 80.
. In Spring and Benner townships 129
people declared against the granting of
a brewing license to Mrs. L. Haas.
BURNED TO Drari.—Max Seigel ,
a young German, was burned to death
in the flames which destroyed the stable
owned by Kimmel and Werner, brew-
ers, in Altoona, early Wednesday morn-
ing. The fire broke out ahout 12:30 a.
m., and when Chief Malloy went up into
the hay mow about an hour later to see if
the flames were all out he discovered
the charred remains of the unfortunate
young man. Seigel was employed in
the brewery until last Wednesday when
he quit, The stable was a favorite loaf-
ing place. ;
AND Sr.
Lighted
Trains,
Air Signals, between
St. Paul and Min neapolis,
CHrcAGo, MILWAUKEE
PauL Rarnway. — Electric
and Steam Heated Vestibuled
with Westinghouse
Chicago,
daily.
Electric Lighted and Steam Heated
Vestibuled Trains between Chicago,
Council Bluffs and Omaha, daily.
Through Vestibuled Sleeping Cars,
daily, between Chicago, Butte, Tacoma,
Seattle, and Portland, Ore.
Solid Trains between Chicago and
principal points in Northern Wisconsin
and the Peninsula of Michigan.
Daily Trains between St, Paul, Min-
neapolis and Kansas City via the Hed-
rick Route.
Through Sleeping Cars, daily, be-
tween St. Louis, St. Paul and Minne-
apolis. .
The finest Dining Cars in the World.
The best Sleeping Cars. Electric
Reading Lamps in Berths.
6,100 miles of road in Illinois, Wis-
consin, Northern Michigan, Towa, Min-
nesota, Missouri, South Dakota and
North Dakota.
Everything First-Class.
First-Class People patronize First-
Class Lines.
Ticket Agents everywhere sell Tick-
ets over the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul Railway. 2¢
THRILLING ADVENTURE WITH A
Brar.— Week before last while a band
of choppers were at work felling trees
on Litchtenwaber’s tract, in the Seven
Mountains, nine miles southwest of
Pardee, on the Lewisburg & Tyrone R.
R., they cut down a tree which fell on a
rock under which a bear had his winter
quarters. The animal resented the in-
sult by coming out and attacking the
choppers with such fury as to require
the united efforts of half a dozen men to
kill it, and only succumbed after having
received nine cuts in the head and body
from axes in the hands of the men. It
was a monster she-bear and exploration
of her lair revealed the presence of two
cubs only a few days old and still blind.
The cubs were removed to the camp of
Adam Krebbs and tenderly nursed, but
one of them died the day after its cap-
ture.— Middleburg Post.
District Institute, No. 2.—A
Teachers’ and Directors’ District Insti-
tute will be held at Millheim, Pa., be-
ginning Friday evening, March 6ch,and
continuing the following day.
The district includes the to wnships of
Gregg, Penn, Haines and Miles, and
Milheim borough, but all persons inter-
ested in the welfare of our schools are
cordially mvited to attend and partici-
pate in the exercises,
D. F. Fortney, Esq., of Bellefonte,
will be present, and on Friday evening
will lecture on “The Relation of School
Directors to the Schools.” Tt is earnest-
ly hoped that all the directors of the
district will be present to hear this lec-
ture.
Ex-County Superintendents Meyer
and Wolf will also be present, and give
the teachers and directors the benefit of
their experience in school work. §