Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., Dec. 9, 1892.
P. GRAY MEEK, EpITOR
EE —
Let Us ive It a Fair Trial
That the new system of voting known
as the Baker ballot law has come to
stay, at least until a change in Consti-
tutional requirements will allow the
use of other methods than the printed
or written ballot, is apparent to every
one. The great expense that putting it
in operation has been, connected with
the fact that many of its provisions
have proven entirely acceptable to the
people, is certain to prevent any serious
attempt at the repeal of the bill, or
any wodification that will do away
with booths, official tickets, or the man-
ner of voting provided by it. While
there ‘may be amendments changing
and simplifying some of its require
ments, there is but little probability
that any serious change of any of its
more important provisions will be un-
dertaken.
As it will be the fixed manner of vot-
ing for years to come, it will be the
duty of the next legislature to care-
fully consider what changes can be
made in it that will correct such errors
as were made apparent by the practi.
calitest of the late election, and will
simplify the more intricate provisions
over which disputes, as to their real
intent, arose.
Among other amendments that
would add to the effectiveness of
the measure would be one specifying
the disabilities that should allow of as-
sistance to the voters. These should be |
confined to such physical infirmities as
would incapacitate one from marking
his ticket, or from inability to read.
As the law now stands the briber and
bull-dozer has full sway. But with his
right to be called in to aseist his victim
curtailed to the few who cannot read
or are physically unable to make a
mark, his business would be gone, and
the elections would be purified to that
extent.
Lengthing the time for printing and
distributing tickets would not be out of
place. A few days more time in which
to do the work would open scores of
printing offices to competition for it,
which would have the effect of lessen.
ingithe cost, and securing this work
for the counties at the least possible
expense. It would also give time to
correct errors, should any occur, and
thus avoid confusion and possible con-
tests growing out of these errors.
In the marking of tickets the group
business should be done away with,
and a single mark at the top of the
ballot should suffice for the entire tick-
et, for the voter casting a straight bal-
lot. This would simplify voting to
that extent that there would be no ex-
cuge for any reasonably intelligent
man making a. mistake.
In the matter of tickets, one half the
number now required to be printed
and distributed, would be snfficient for
all purposes. Seventy-five official
and fitty sample ballots for every fifty
voters, would be ample in number; and
in place of the double distribution now
aecessary for :the purpose of security
against lose er distruction, a few ex-
tra thousands could be printed and
kept in the commissioner’s office, where
they could be obtained on the morning
of the election, in case any district
should find itself without them when
the polls opened.
Cutting down the tickets one half
and reducing the cost of distribution to
the same extent, would lessen the ex-
pense under the new system, now
that the booths, guard rails and ballot
boxes are.on hand, so that the cost
would he but litile, if any greater, than
under the present system.
Under the best that can be done
with it, the law will be found cumber-
some and lacking in many of the beue- |.
fits that were expected under it. But
we have it. We have paid dearly for
it, and the best we can do now is to
make it as near right as possible, and
put up with it until a change in the
Constitution allows us to adopt a sim-
pler, safer and more perfect way of vot-
ing.
——Whatever disasters others see in
Democratic control, the hard coal opera-
tors up in the Scranton district are
neither distressed nor disheartened
about it. Oa the 24th inst, the miners
of the Pine Brook & Capouse shaft,
of the Lackawanna Iron and Steel
Company, numbering 600, were given
an increase of 0 per cent. in wages, for
mining coal, and for cutting cross
headings they were increased from 50
cents per yard to $1.41 per heading,
Laborers and all other employees
abcut the mines and breakers of the
company, were also given increases
from 10 to 30 cents per day. And still
we hear calamity ekriekers, tell of the
terrible times that is soon to follow the
change that the people determined on,
on the 8th of November.
RE TT CS RE NS
Massachusett's Disgrace.
If we were a Republican, and par
ticularly on of the sharp-voiced-nasal-
twanged ones, who lived in Massa-
chusetts, and boasted of the inteligence
and general enlightenment of our
party, as Republicans up there have
been doing since they got through
hanging witches and burning quakers,
we would feel somewhat backward
aboutstandingaroundsincethe election,
as they are doing, admitting fhat they
are the dumbest people anywhere, and
that they lost the election because they
did not know enough to know how
to vote right.
Of allthe voters of the different
States of the Union, those of Massa-
chusetts,—literary, enlightened, cultur-
ed, Msssachusetts—are the only ones
who plead ignorance as an excuse for
defeat, or attribute the failure of Re-
publicans to succeed, to the fact that
the voters of that party did not know
how to mark their ballots properly.
While Governor RusseLL's majority
was less than 3,000,it is alleged by
Republican papers, that 19,186 Republi-
can votes had to be thrown out because
they were wrongly marked, thus ad"
mitting thatit was only through the
ignorance of its voters that the State
was lost to the Republicans.
To the outside public, it matters
little just who is governor of Massa-
chusetts, but to the people of that State
one would imagine that its own good
name, its reputation for intelligence,
culture, and learning, amounted to
enough, to be an inducement at least,
for its newspapers to keep quite over
a matter as disappointing and die-
graceful as it musc be for the people of
that commonwealth, it the statements
made by these papers in relation to
the causes that led to the result of the
election, are correct.
The system of voting in Massa:
chusetts is no more complicated or in-
tricate than that adopted by thirty-six
of the forty-three other states. It is
in fact nearly thesame as that in use
in most of them, and yet from no other
section has the same proportion of
ignorant or incorrect voting been
charged. Even among the illiterate
negroes of the south, or with us “Penn-
sylvania dutch,” no such numbers of
people, too dumb to know how to vote,
are to be found, as Massachusetts
parades before an astonished world, as
an excuse for being Democratic.
Whatever gratification it may be to
the Republicans of the country to
know the real reason why Massa
chusetts, elected a Democratic governor,
we take it that theiris little credit to
be gained by her people in pleading
dumbness as an excuse for being beat-
en by the Democracy, or in demanding
a change of election laws to bring
them within the knowledge and com-
prehension of thosewho have heretofore
boasted so loudly of their inteligence
and scholarly attainments.
With all its advantages, its colleges
and schools, its seminaries and so-
cieties, 1ts teachers and talkers, its
jecturers and lyceums, and its boasted
knowledge of every ecience and sub-
ject, we believe, if we were one of them,
we would rather admit honestly and
openly, that the state was Democratic
than acknowledge that its Republican
voters were to dumb to know how to
cast their ballots. :
As it nears the time for the
meeting of the Legislature, we hear
the usual cry coming up from the press
of the State, that the Legislative Rec-
ord “should go.” There is no question
but the newspapers are right. It
should go. But the power or the individ-
ual who can make it go has never been
found. In fact it is so slow thatif it
could be started to ‘go’ at all, it
wouldn’t ke known as, or bear any re-
semhlance to, the publication referred
to.
Escaped Taxation.
Those who insist that an income
tax is wrong, will find but little argu.
ment favoring their view in the case of
Jay Gourp. The estimates of his
wealth generally fix the amount at
one hundred million dollars, and yet
on all the assess-books, upon which
his name is to be found, the sum total
of his valuation for taxable purposes is
but little over one half million dollars.
The ordinary run of humanity pays
taxes on every dollars worth of proper-
ty they possess—many on property
that other people own by virtueof a
mortgage—but men who value their
holdings by the million, ani whose in-
dividual incomes amount to more in a
year, than do that of eight tenths of the
people during a life time, slip through
with but a moiety of their property on
the tax-list, and by reason of the char-
acter of their investments and surround-
ings, avoid the payment of anything
like their proportion of the expenses of
the general, state or local, government.
If there are any reasons, why GouLp’s
or other people’s millions, should not
bear their proportionate share of the
cost of maintaining
courts and officials to protect them, that
“poorer people's hundreds or thousands
of dollars do, we have not as yet heard
what they are. And as it ie impossible
to get at the value of the millionaire’s
property, to require it to pay its full
share, where is the wrong in taxing
their income, after it amounts to a cer-
tain fixed figure.
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Victory for the Reading.
a government,
The Leasing of the Lehigh Valley and Other
Roads Not a Violation of the Constitution.
WiLLiamseort, Dec. 5—W. W,
Hart, master in the case in equity
brought by M. H. Arnot, of Elmira,
against the Reading combine, filed his
report in the Prothonotary’s office this
afternoon. The report is in favor of
the Reading. This was the first case
brought against the combine, and pre-
ceded the action of the State of Penn-
sylvania and New Jersey. The an-
swers were filed April 12. All the
testimony was taken in Philadelphia,
beginning April 27, and made 300
printed pages. The case was argued
here before the master September 17.
The master finds that the roads
operated by the Philadelphia and
Reading and Lehigh Valley Railroads
to the Philadelphia and Reading is
not in violation of the ‘Constitution of
Pennsyivania ; that the Central Rail-
road of New Jersey and the Port
Reading Company are both corpora:
tions of New Jersey, and the lease of
the former railroad to the latter is not
in violation of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, as the Constitution can
have no extra territorial effects.
THE COAL LEASES 8USTAINED.
The coal leases are sustained on the
ground that not more than 30 per cent.
of the coal output in the anthracite re-
gion of Pennsylvania is produced and
controlled by the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal Iron Company, the Le-
high Valley Coal Company and the
Lebigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Com:
pany, and that 70 per cent. of the out-
put is controlled by 130 corporations
and individual owners and operators of
the mines and collieries not controlled
by the above three companies; that
while these three companies mined
and sold 13,190,289 tons of coal in
1891, the 130 companies and individ:
ual operators mined and sold 38,258,
289 tons.
Exceptions have been filed to the
master’s report by Messrs McCormick
and Sweet, who represent the plairtiff,
but these have been overruled by the
master. The case will now go before
Judge Metzer, where it will be argued
as soon as possible, and 1n due season
the Judge will pass upon the great
questions involved. After his opinion
is handed down it will go to the Su-
preme Court.
Blondin’s Fearful Struggle With a
Lunatic on a High Rope.
Blondin, the renowned rope walker,
usually carried a man upon his back
when walking the tight-rope. Former-
ly he was wont to bargain with some
one to accompany him on this danger-
ous journey. Oa the occasion of a per-
formance in Chicago a man offered his
service gratis. Blondin accepted them
and ascended the rope with his living
burden. When the pair had reached
the middle of the rope the man began to
laugh heartily.
“What is it that amuses you?’ the
rope-dancer asked with astonishment.
“Oh! a comic idea has just struck me.
I was thinking what sort of a face you
would pull if, during the next half min-
ute, both of us were to fall down upon
the audience.”
“But we shall not fall,”
Blondin reassuringly.
“But we have determined upon this
occasion to take my lite.”
At the same moment the man began
to wriggle about, so that the rope-danc-
er nearly lost his balance. He however
soon composed himself, dropped his
balancing pole and gripped the man so
firmly with his bands that the latter was
unable to move. Then, continuing his
walk, although in a state of great trepi-
dation, he arrived safely at the end of
the rope, and, allowing his living bur-
den to slide from his shoulders, he ad-
ministered a box on both ears with such
furce that the would-be suicide fell
down unconscious. Since that terrible
journey Blondin has carried only one
man, his true and faithful servant. on
every occasion.—N. ¥. World.
replied
Winter Excursion Book of the Penn-
sylvania Railroad.
A very valuable book for those con-
templating either an extended winter
trip or a short visit to the sunny South
has just been issued by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. Many useful sug-
gestions and information are contained
in the little volume, which is copiously
illustrated and provided with a valuable
map of all the territory under considera-
tion. Copies may be obtained at the
ticket offices ot the Company, or upon
application to Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant
General Passenger Agent, 233 South
Fourth Street, Philadel phia.
May go to the Penitentiary.
New ORrreans, Dec. 5. — In the
criminal district court to-day Judge
Moise overruled the motion for a new
trial in the case of C. C. Antonio, the
colored ex-lientenant governor of
Louisana, who was convicted of ob-
taing money by false pretense. An:
tonto will be sentenced to-day or
to-morrow. He will probably get two
years in the penitentiary.
A Disastrous Cyclone.
ATLANTA, Texas, December 6. —A
\disastrous cyclone occurred near here
this afternoon. Several persons are re-
ported killed and injured.
Election Booth Contractors Paid,
HARRISBURG, December 6.—State
Treasurer Morrison to-day paid out $26,
994.15 to the contractors who supplied
Philadelphia with election booths.
General Henry M. Hoyt Dead.
.
Pennsyltania®s Ex-Governor Succumbs to Re-
peated Attacks of Paralysis. -
WILKESBARRE, Dec. 1.—Ex Gover-
oor Heary M. Hoyt is dead. The end
was peaceful.” Six months ago he was
stricken with paralysis, and three
mouths later he bad another stroke.
Since then he has failed rapidly. His
estate will not reach over $5,000.
"Henry Martin Hoyt was born in
Kingston, Luzerne, county, Pa., in
Juve, 1830. His tather, Ziba Hoyt,
settle in Luzerne county in 1794. At
the age ot fourteen Henry M. entered
the Wyoming seminary, where he pre
pared for college. In 1845 he entered
Williams college, graduating in 1849.
He then took up the study of law in
the office of Hon. George W. Wood-
ward, but he continued there for only
one year, going, in 1853, to Mem-
phis, where he taught school until
recalled to Pennsylvania by the
death of his father. He then studi-
ed law in the office of Warren J. Wood-
ward, with whom he remained until
the election of his tutor to the bench.
-He was married on Sept. 25, 1855, to
Mary E. Loveland, of Kingston, and the
year following he began the practice of
his profession. The same year he took
part in the Fremont campaign.
At the breaking out of the rebellion
ne was active in organizing the Fifty-
second regiment of Pennsylvania volun-
teers. He was commissioned lien-
tenant colonel, and his regiment being
in the bridgade of General Negly parti-
cipated in the peninsula campaign of
1872. His war record is an enviable
one, and his active work soon earned
him promotion to general. In 1875 he
became chairman of the Republican
state committee, and conducted the
campaign of that and the succeeding
years with success. Oa May 19, 1870
he was nominated by the Republican
party for the position of governor of
state of Pennsylvania. After his ad-
ministration he went to Philadelphia
and there practiced law for five years.
Afterward returning to Wilkesbarre,
he retired from active life, and for the
last four years lived quietly at his man-
siod on South Franklin street.
Jack Ramsey on Trial.
He Is the Most Notorious of the Surviving Mem.
bers of the Cooley Gang.
UN10NTOWN, Pa., Dec. 6—The most
notorious survivor of the once notor-
ious Cooley gang outlaws, Robber Jack
Ramsey, was placed on trial here
for burglary. Hundreds of people who
have been in town all the week to bear
the trials of those cases, or at least to
get a glimpse of the desperado who di-
vided with Frank Cooley the notorie-
ty of being the biggest thief and all-
around “bad man,” in their peculiar
business, flocked around the court
house and crowded the corridors.
When the time for opening tbe trial
at last arrived only a few, however,
were able to get within the door oa ac-
count of the small court room. Ram-
sey was very cool. He will be tried
first on two charges of burglary in
connection with the McClellandtown
outrages. It will be remembered that
the Cooley gang entered the houses of
several old people and by burning their
feet torced them to disclose the where-
abouts of their savings. The day was
spent in securing a jury and the entire
panel was exhausted before the twelve
men had been chosen. The testimony
will begin to-morrow.
A 86,000 Gift.
George W. Childs Remembers the Firemen and
Policemen.
Puairaperpaia, December 7.—The
following letter, with a $6,000 check
enclosad, was to-day sent by George
W. Childs, proprietor of the burned out
Ledger, to Mayor Stuart :
PuBLic LEDGER,
S. W. Cor. SixTH AND CHESTNUT STS.
PaiLADELPHIA, December 7.
My Dear Mr. Mayor: I enclose my
check for $5,000 which I wonld be
obliged if you and Mr. A. M. Beitler,
director of public works, would distrib-
ute to the firemen who did such effi-
cient service saving the Ledger building
from complete destruction last night. If
you approve a portion might go to the
fireman's pension fund. I aleo enclose
my check for $1,000, which I would
like you to divide among the members
of the police force who rendered such
valuable aid at the fire. Very sincere-
ly your friend. George W. CHILDS.
To the Hon. Edwin Stuart.
Mr. Childs was was asked to-day
when the Ledger would be ‘at home”
again. “To-night,” he replied. “To.
morrow’s paper will be issued with
eight pages and in such perfection that
the readers will not perceive that there
has been a fire to hamper the publica-
ion,
——~Simple pine frames may be con-
verted into pretty picture frames by first
gilding them and then stretching fish-
net over them and, after fastening it se-
curely, gilding the whole several times.
Another method is. after gilding the
frame, to cover it with glue and scatter
very finely cut cork over it, after which
gild a number of times. Coarse cotton
lace, with raised figures, may be used
instead ot fish net to put on the frame
after it is gilded the first time.
——The English magazine Woman
propounds as a question for competitive
answers, “Would you rather marry a
man whom you entirely love but whose
love for you you are not sure of, ora
man who entirely loves you but whose
love you do not thoroughly reciprocate?’
And the editor of the Woman's Tribune
answers it, Yankee fashion, by pro-
pounding another. “Would you rath-
er lie or steal ?”’
Egan Will Sail on Saturday.
WasnaiNagToN, Dec. 7.—Minister
Egan had an interview with Secretary
Foster at the state department jo-0a7:
preparatory, to his return to Chili. e
expects to sail from New: York per
steamer on the 10th,
+The Philadelphia Public Ledger Suc-
cumbs to Fire and Water,
The Fire Originated in the Cellar, But Just
What the Cause Was Is Notas Yet Known—
Gutted from the Cellar to the Roof of the Build-
ing— The Paper will Come out To-Day.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., December 6.—
The Public Ledger building, at the
‘suuthwest corner of Sixth and Chest
| nut streets, was badly gutted this even
"ing by fire and water. The damage by
| fire was confined almost entirely to the
| composing room, situated on the top
floor, but a torrent of water poured
down through the building, flooding
"every floor in the structure. The loss
i can only be approximated to-night, bat
{it will probably be somewhere between
| $250,000 and $300,000.
The Ledger building is eighty-three
feet front on Chestnut street and 235
feet depth on Sixth street, and is a five
story brown stone building with a man-
sard roof. The Ledger has a complete
newspaper plant at 415 Locust street
and the compositors are setting type for
to-morrow’s paper. As the presses
were rendered unfit for use to-night by
water Mr. Childs accepted the offer of
Wm. M. Singerly to print hie paper
from the Record’s presses.
During the fire Mr. Childs was ten-
dered the use of presses by every daily
and weekly newspaper publisherin the
city. The cause of the fire is unknown.
The cellar in which it broke out is not
used, and no theory as to how it broke
out is advanced.
Later to-night Mr. Joel Cook, busi
ness manager, said that the Ledger's
total loss was estimated at $150,000,
including $100,000 on the building and
$50,000 on the contents. The loss of
the tenants is estimated at $500,000.
The perfecting presses, engines and
other machinery in the cellar is val-
ued at $75,000 and their only damage
is by water, $25,000 being an estimate
of the loss.
Pennsylvania Tours to Washington.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany announces its series of personally
conducted tours to Florida for January
31st, February 14th and 28th, March
14th, and 28th. The peny will travel
by special train of Pullman sleeping and
dining cars, and they will go through
via the Atlantic Coast Line on fast
schedule. The Tourist Agent and Chap-
eron will conduct each tour in both di-
rections, except that passengers on last
tour will return independently by regu-
lar trains, and all the details will be
carried out in that superior style for
which these trips have becomecelebrated-
Excursion tickets, including railway
transportation, Pullman accommoda-
tivns and meals enroute in both direc-
tions, will be sold from all principal
stations on the system. They will be
good only on the special trains, or on
regular trains to the nearest point of
connection with the special trains, and
will only be accepted for the return trip
on the regular returning train of that
tour, except for the fifth tour returning,
which will be good by regular trains.
They will admit of a stay of two weeks
in Florida, except in the case of the fifth
tour, which has a longer return limit,
tickets being good for return passage
until May 89th, 1893. For information
detailing the tours application should
be made to Mr. Geo. W. Boyd, A. G.
P. A., Philadelphia.
The Senate's
Political Complexion
Doubtful,
W asHINGTON, December 5,—Accord-
ing to Senator Cockrell, of Missouri,
democrat, the complexion of the next
senate is still a matter of much doubt,
and the democrats will not have the
necessary senators who, with Vice
President-elect Stevenson, would give
them a working majority. Senator
Cockrell saye that the democrats now
have tirirty-nine senators, and with the
two from New York and Wisconsin,
with one probably from California,
they would still have only forty-two,
Montana and Wyoming he regards as
doubttul. :
ADDITIONAL LOCALS:
MarTHA J. LANE. —Relict of James
B. Lane who d°sd in Lancaster, this
State, thirty years ago, died at the home
of her son, John N. Lane, at No. 53
East Linn street, at noon last Friday.
Deceased had suffered with rheumatism
for some time but no serious thoughts
were entertained until the day of her
death when heart affection developed.
Strange enough, in fulfillment of her wish
to diesuddenly and without a sad death-
bed scene, she sank back on the pillows
never to speak again after having raised
herself up to take some medicine.
She was born at the country seat,
‘Wheatland, near Lancaster, nearly sev-
enty-three years ago and for one so well
advanced in years was remarkably act-
ive. Her father was William J. Jenkins
first district attorney of Lancaster coun-
ty,and she was a niece of President
Buchannon., In 1871, with her three
sons, John N., of this place, James B., of
Philadelphia, and Elliott E., of Cam-
den, N. J., she moved hither where the
two older boys were employed in the
banking house of Wm. F. Reynolds &
Co. They then occupied the elegant
home on the corner of Allegheny and
Lamb streets, in which Gen. D. H,
Hastings now lives, but the sons married
and left Bellefonte, Mrs. Lane going
to live with her son John, on Linn
street.
Always a consistent member of St.
John’s Episcopal church che did much
for charity, but in that beautiful way
which denotes the true spirit of the giver
her alms were always given with a view
to avoid publicity. Inthe bome circle
a more loving and devoted mother there
could not have been. Short funeral
services were held at the house on Mon-
day morning at 9 o'clock, then the body
was taken to Lancaster for burial. ~~
News Notes From Howard.
The Reformed church at Romola hasre-
ceived the newe ight lamp reflector and placed
it ip position. Iris a grand thing. 4
The good Toads of Howard are something to
be envied in this kind of weather. We hear
no compplaints whatever -whiei, is saying a
great deal.
Grant Swires writes from Mechanicsburg
that he will be home shortly. His arm 1s slow
in coming to, but he expects to be in trim for
work before long.
D. E. Holter's wedding must be coming be-
cause his Tioga mare ran away from John
Schenck’s barn and smashed his buggy fcr him
Davie, you won't need it any more after a shoxt
time.
Irvin Wensel has been on the sick list this
past week. His pains caused much fear for
the safety of his health, but under Dr. Mec-
Entire’s skillful treatment, he is gradually
coming round.
H. W. Bickle, will leave Howard for the pur
pose of studying law before long, probably
about the last Thursday in December. Of
course a sale will be held, and everything will
go. We are extremely sorry to lose this val-
uable citizen but there is one comfort; we do
not lose him as a reason of dull times,
It is expected that a new town will be buils
upon the divide, going to Marsh Creek (Ro-
mola). Already several buildings have been
built, and are ready for occupation. As it wil
be a Democratic town the WATCHMAN expects a
large addition to its subscription list and it
does not hope in vain as other papers do.
K. G. Shutt, has added a saw mill to his al.
ready extensive plant here. This gentleman,
is a solid Democrat, who believes that better
times are here, mainly through the efforts ot
the incoming administration, the magnetic
influence of Mr. Cleveland, and the disposition
of foreign countries to pay more respect to
our dignity.
Mrs. McKee, of Eagleville, who died, recent,
ly, from a complication of diseases, was to
have been buried Sunday last, but owing to
the absence of her son, who has been in the
west, the funeral was postponed until Monday,
when she was kuried inthe cemetery there
She lived a noble life, was kindly thought of’
by all, and leaves a great many bosom friends
te mourn her death.
We failjto divine why Thomas Butler is build..
ing a residence near his new barn, at the low-
er end of his farm, but presume it to be be-
cause Burdine and——are building one just
outside the Boro. limits on the same farm. But
we may be mistaken, You know that Chris.
Wagner was staying at the other house a long
time this past summer, to keep watch as to
how rats, which occasionally escaped from the
cellar, got out.
The party given by Mr. W. G. Ertle, at the
residence of his father, was in every way,
highly successful. The following were pre-
sent Messrs. John Wagner, Hunter Thomas,
C.Z. Long, Dave Hanna, Harvey Heverly,
Harvey Neff, Frank Holter, Harry S. Freeman,
Geo. Bordep, D. W. Holter, Taylor Confer,
Euoch Crape, Cyrus Tice, John Hopkins,
Lionel Shay, Al. Strickland, and Misses Me-
Dowel, Mary Loder, Carrie Dolan, from Nit
tany Hall, Mollie Adams, Delia Adams, Alice
Gorman, Miss Young, Miss Lyons, Annie
Kane, Bertha Hayes, Alice Wistar, Maud Hop-
kins, Tillie White, Eva aad Anna Canday, Car.
rie Lucas, Addie Heverly, and many others.
RET TT I.
Pine Grove Mentions.
Willie Ripka and Levi Krebs, are feasting on
the savory meat of the fleet-foot. Each brou gh
one off old f'ussey mountain last Friday.
There are yet but three weeks of Leap year
left and our “best girl” who has failed to thus
far improve her time better catch on soon or
perhaps beforever too late.
Our I. 0. 0. F.276 members are arranging
to furnish the newly fitted hall above the store
rooms on the corner which will be ready fo
occupancy in a few weeks.
Butchering season is well on the wane with
mine host of the St Elmo ahead, having the
big porkers of the town. His five hogs aver:
aged 3:2 lbs. The county notyet heard from.
Our roller Mill which has been shut down
for repairs for a week or more is now making
up lost time, and in a very short time will be
able to accommodate the many customers
who think Jake Wagner one of the best of
millers in Central Penna. Just ncw he isan
awful mild republican.
Mr. Thomas J. Gates, of Mill Creek, accom-
companied by his wife and interesting little
daughter, paid a brief visit to old time friends
here-abouts, after an- absence of a score of
years. Tom was called after the father of
Democracy and clings to the faith, and is one
of the survivors .f Hancock’s famous Second
Corps.
Just as the sun was sinking beyond the
western horizon on the lst inst. the spirit of
Lizzy, wife of G. W.Gates, took its flight to that
better home above. Aged 36 years. Her
maiden name was Barr daughter of Rev. Barr,
deceased. The many readers of the Warcn-
MAN remember {the parents who were filled
with the holy spirit and she by her word and
action was not afraid to declare the whole
council of the Master, being a consistent mem
ber of the Presbyterian church ofthis place.
Always contented and cheerful she inberited
her strong religious nature from her parents
as shown by her open-heartedness and her
kindness, care and solicitude for others. Hav-
ing no childron yet she became foster mother
to four young children whom she kindly spoke
to and most tenderly cared for. We sincerely
cherish her memory and desire to express our
most sincere sympathy for the irreparable
loss to the family which will ever call her
blessed. Her remains were brought from her
late residence near McElavey's Fort to the
cemetery at this place, accompanied by a large
number of neighbors and friends. In the ab-
sence of her pastor George Elliott Rev. W. C
Kuhnes, of State College, delivered a truthful
and beautiful eulogy to the departed wife
and sister,
No Trouble From Kolbites.
Governor Jones, of Alabama, Quietly Takes the
Oath of Office.
MonrcoMErY, Dec. 5 — Governor-
elect Jones was inaugurated at noon
Thursday, before the joint session of
the house and senate. The oath of
office was administered by Chief Jus.
tice Stone, The governor then deliv-
ered his inaugural address.
There had been some fear from the
Kolbites, but the adjutant general
ordered out two detachments of the
local battery to the capitol, for the
ostensible purpose of firing a salute,
but really to guard against surprise.
The men of the battery wore side-arms,
and there was some apprehension ot a
conflict, :
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