Powarralis Waldpan. Bellefonte, Pa., Dec. 23, 1892. To CORRESPONDENTS. — No communications ‘published unless accompanied by the real name of the writer. THINGS ABOUT TOWN & COUNTY —— Institute next week. — The grip is coming. Look out for it. — Bellefonte has been full of shop- pers all week. ——J C. Harper was a Clearfield visitor last week. —— Last Wednesday was the shortest day of the year 1892. —--Remember the Logan Masque ball yn next Friday night. —Don’t think of driving your horse unless you have had it rough shod. -—As time progresses be careful to have the tab on your paper move along with it. ——The banks of the country will be closed next Monday. To observe Christmas. —A feather weight umbrella with the frame made of Alaminium has appeared on the market. ——The opera house next Friday night. Much fun. Good music. A merry comedy. ——Don’t forget the Auditors’ con- vention in the Court House, next Wed- nesday, Dec. 28th. — Dance with the Logans at their masked Ball, in Bush’s Arcade, next Friday night. Tickets only 50cts. ——Frank Bradford, of Poe Mills, will be station agent at Centre Hall, vice Arb. Katherman promoted. ——Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schreyer have gone to Camden N. J. to spend ‘their Christmas with Mrs. Schreyer’s parents. Miss Caroline Orvis and Miss Emily Harris, who have been visiting in Philadelphia for weeks, came home “Tuesday. ——Miss Mamie Sourbeck, a daugh- ter of Jno. D. Sourbeck, is home from a convent in Philadelphia, to spend her - Christmas vacation. -——The venerable S. T. Shugert, of “this place, is lying dangerously ill at ‘the home of his daughter, Mrs, W. E. Burchfield, in Philipsburg. ——Bellefonte store windows are looking particulurly attractive just now. The holidays make up a different sea- son from any other we enjoy. -.-The opera house attraction for next Friday night will be ¢Little Trixie.” A mirthful comedy, replete with good music and laughable specialties. - ——Among the pretty store windows in town are the ¥. P. Blair& Co., jew- elry windows and those of J. A. Harper & Co., the dry goods merchants. ——Next Thursday night the home talent minstrels will hold forth in the opera house. Don’t forget to secure your seats before they are all gone. .— A defective flue caused the burn- ing of W. S. Lanning’s house, one mile above Snow Shoe Inter-section, on Sun- day night. The family barely escaped burning. ——1It is said that it required nearly $200,000 to pay the 50 per cent. divi- dend to the creditors of the defunct Philipsburg banking company, on last Monday. ——The venerable Jacob W. Packer, of Curtin township, died on Monday morning. Deceased was 80 years of age and a consistent member of the Disci- ple church. ——Farmer’s Institutes will be held in this county as follows : At Rebers- burg on Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 25th and 26th. At Centre Hall, Friday and Saturday, Jan. 27th and 28th. ——The next opera house attraction will be the minstrel entertainment given by the young men of our town. A pleasing program has been carefully prepared and all who attend are pro- mised a good night’s enjoyment. ——A festival will be held in the rooms recently occupied by the Fauble clothing house, in Reynold’s bank building, during the whole of next week. Meals at all hours, will be served by the ladies of the Lutheran <hurch. ——On Wednesday afternoon John Horner shot a large black bear on the mountain just above Pleasant Gap. Two of them wereseen but the young hunter succeeded in getting only one. Pleasant Gap people now sit on their pig styes all night to keep watch or the other bruin. ® — While driving in to town, on last Friday, Andy Mott, the High wreet marble cutter, met with an acei- dent which severely injured his little nephew. When right near the old car shops dam his horse frightened at a tree which some little boys were dragging along the road, and plunged over the embankment. ARRESTED FoR INCENDIARISM — Bellefonte has been thrown into a fever of excitement over an arrest which was made late last Friday night by offlcer | Gares. An attempt had been made to fire | the Reyrolds’ block, which fronts on Al- legheny street and is occupied by the stores of V. J. Bauer & Co, El. Guar- man and Jno. Meese. Thesecond and third doors being compartments for fam- ilies and ozcupied by the Misses Pearl, and Robert Gilmore. At about fifteen minutes before ten o'clock Mrs. Pearl detected the odor of smoke and upon search for its origin she noticed a man at the rear of the build- ing, but did not see any fire, though the smoke was very noticeable. She called received only a grunt for a reply. She then sent and found John Bauer who hunted up policeman Gares and togeth- er they went to the rear of the building where they found a young man, from Lock Haven, named Farst Crider who has been attending the Academy in this place. He was secured and hur- ried off to jail before anyone had time to realize that such an important arrest had been made. When 1t became known that 8 supposed incendiary had been caught the greatest excitement pre- vailed and the streets were soon crowd- ed with people, all anxious to hear the details. There was almost a panic in the opera house when the news was an- nounced in there. The WATCHMAN reporter made a careful inquiry into the case and glean- ed the following stories, which in many instances are directly contradictory. All of the statements which we publish below are reliable and will be sworn to if the parties who made them are sup- pened as witnesses. John D. Sourbeck, the High street green grocer, saw Crider at about train time on Friday night.—That would be ahout 9 o’clock.—At that time Crider entered Sourbeck’s store and was so drunk that for fear of his falling into one of the fruit windows the proprietor took him by the arm and led him out. At about the same time Philip Beez- er saw Crider on High street. He was then reeling trom one side of the pave: ment to the other and was accompanied by Fred Butts. Misses Reed and Hunter, teachers at the Academy, assert that Crider passed their room on the way to his own at half past nine o'clock. Both marked the time by looking at their watches and remarking : “How fast the evening has gone.” Rev. Jas. P. Hughes, principal of the Academy, says he talked to Crider after 10:20, knowing the precise time be- cause he had just finished winding up his clock. He, Crider, was in his own room then and Mr. Hughes thinks he had been there ever since he passed the ladies in the hall at halt past nine o'clock. Mr. Hughes did not notice that he was drunk because he was not in the room with him. Having talked with him from the hall door way. Mrs. Pearl, who caused the arrest, is positive of the following: The pres- ence of considerable smoke in their house aroused her curiosity, but at first her daughters thought it was the smoke from a fire which the store-keepers below usually build to burn up their waste pa- per. Mrs. Pearl not being satisfied with this explanation went down into the cellar, which opens in the alley at the rear of Bauer’s store. There she discovered} the smoking embers of what had been a tiny fire. She saw a man peeping around the cor- per of the annex to Bauer’s storegwho shook his fist at her. § Immediately she sent up for John Bauer who came down and hunted up the police. The question of time plays a very important part in her testimony for she says she will swear that it was just a few moments before 10 o'clock because, while waiting for ber daughter’s return from Bauer’s, it struck 10. Now it there has been no discrep- ancy in the time of the town clock and that at the Academy, Crider hasan Alibi proven in these two statements. Mrs. Pearl described the man she saw and her description tallied exactly to the clothing that Crider wore, however. Policeman Gares says that Crider seemed pretty sober when arrested, but Sheriff Ishler comes right around and states that when Gares shoved Crider into the cell, on the night of the arrest, he fell right down and never moved un- til daylight next morning. Evidence conclusive that the man must have been very drunk when the jail was reached. William Conley, who is connected with the Meese store, says that when he opened up on Saturday morn- ing he went back to look at the fire and found four little sticks, slightly scorch- ed, with a partly burned piece of paper --such as comes around cambric—and three burnt matches, which was the on- ly evidence of & fire at all. On both basement doors are brown scorched spots which he thinks could not possibly have been made by all the fire there could have been there. As far as we were able to ascertain no one is willing to swear that they ac- tually saw fire, though the smoke was quite thick even at the time the arrest was male. The case is certainly a puz. zler, and the hearing before Judge to the man and warned him away, but. Furst to-morrow at ten o’clock will create an unusual interest. Crider was released on $500 bail—a surprisingly low bond for the crime with which he 1s charged -- on Monday morning. The WATCHMAN is only too anxious to help ferret out the fiend who has ben causing so much loss of property in Bellefonte of late but, it is frank in say- ing that in the face of such conflicting statements it will be difficult to fasten the crime on him. If anything new develops between this time and the convicted, then we advise giving him the severest penalty the law will coun- tenance. Young Crider is quite a fine looking fellow and protests his innocence. He has told a number of stories as to hearing, however, and he should be’ dH Five Horses AND Six MULES BURN- gD.—Shortly after 10 o'clock Wednes- | day night the big stables of McCal- mont & Co., coal grain, lime and im- | plement dealers of this place, were dis- covered to be on fire. In an instant, it buildings, making an attempt to enter a foo-lhardy undertaking. Locked up in the stables were eleven head cf as good borses and mules as there are to be fourd in this county. Two pretty little bay driving horses, three draft horses, a $500 team of young mules and four others of slightly less value, but still each good for a $200 check. Two dogs were also burned. The stables aie located, at the com- pany’s lime kilns and were low frame how he got back in that alley, no two of which are the same. One story which has raised considerable conjec- back there to escape capture. —— «Little Trixie” at the opera house next Friday night. ——Col. Edwin J. Pruner is an aspi- rant for mayoralty honors in Tyrone. ——Joe W. Furey, of Lock Haven, is slowly recovering from his protracted illness. ——Remember to have your sale bills posted with the WATCHMAN imprint on them. — Refined minstrelsy at the opera house next Thursday night. Secure your seats early. —Edward C. Humes Esq., President of the First National bank of Bellefonte, is in his 83rd year, but still tends to all of his immense business interests with the same sagacity that characterized his work back in the fifties. ——The Homestead poisoning affair has caused much serious thought about Bellefonte of late. There are those who think that the death of several young men who went from this community to work for the Carnegie’s might have been caused by poison. ——Judge Hinckley, of Danville lectured for the benefit of the Y. M.C. A. in the Court house on Monday even- ing Ifthe audience had been near as large as the lecture was good the hall would not have held the crowd. Only a few people heard it however, ——1In our last week’s issue we made the statement that there was but one girl in the graduating class at the Lock Haven State Normal school. Our in- formant was mistaken for instead of one there are fifty-one young ladies who will receive diplomas at the next commence- ment, if all goes well. Thereare twenty nine gentlemen in the class. ——Rev. J. R. Davies, the pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Ty- rone, has accepted a call to the Fourth Ave., Presbyterian church ot New York. He will take the charges of the late Dr. Howard Crosby and will re- ceive a salary of $6,000, beside the sal- aries of two chapels over which he will preside, which will increase the whole to about $8,000. He was getting $1,800 per annum in Tyrone. ——This is the last visit the WATcH- MAN will make to you during the good old year of 1892. Do you realize how soon it will end and what have you ac- complished. Has the world been any better off because of your existence in it during the last year. See to it that some resolution for the new one is made. Deny yourself ofsomething. Pay your printer promptly and read the news every week with the consciousness that you are not using another man’s prop- erty. ——Chief Justice Harlan of the Sup- reme Court of the United States has been one of the regular lecturers before the Columbia law school, of Washington D. C. Recently he had his last talk with the embryo lawyers perparatory to his departure for Europe as U.S. Com- missioner on the Alaskan seal commis- sion. The students thought to make a parting token of their appreciation ot the able instructions given them and presented him with a gold headed cane. Will Keller, son of Col. D. 8. Keller, of this place, who is attending the law school, was selected to make the presen- tation speech. A decided honor. ——About 7 o'clock Tuesday evening an accident occurred at Cook’s ‘Bon Marche’, on Bishop street, which for a while threatened the destruction of the entire store. One of the large windows which had been handsomely decorated for Christmas, caught fire from the gas and everything in it burned before the clerks had time to realize what was the matter. The store was filled with smoke in an instant, but a few bucketsfull of water stopped the flames. The large plate glass window was broken. While the fire frightened the owners quite a good bit they are still doing a rushing business in Christmas fancy goods. (all and see how near they were burn- ed up yet how quickly they bave recov- ered. ture is that he was being chased and ran structures which burned like tinder. The blacksmith shop adjoining was entirely destroyed, the top was burned off the scale house and one elevator, in which ! was stored 500 bushels of oats, 350 i bushels corn, $600 worth of phosphate and 3 car load of plaster, was considera- bly damaged. Its contents suffering almost entire loss from thedeluge of water thrown on it. A number of cars were standing on the Bellefonte Central R. R. tracks when the fire broke out and two of them were badly burned before the train was moved. The loss is as follows: Five horses, six mules, two dogs, fourteen sets of harness, a new buggy, 500 bushels oats, 350 bushels corn—slightly damaged, $600 worth of Phosphate, 4 car load of plaster, the blacksmith shop, scale office and elevator damaged. The insurance will cover about half the loss. Early yesterday morning the firm had completed arrangements whereby their extensive lime operations were contin- ued with a very slight loss of time. Col Shortlidge was away at the time of the fire. The confusion caused by the lack of proper fire alarm whistles was very no- ticeable. It was fully fifteen minutes trom the time of the first alarm until people realized where the fire was. It is to be hoped that Wednesday night's fire will grove a lesson which Council will study immediately. Let us have the old alarm. One that there is no mistaking. After the firemen arrived they did invaluable service in saving the other elevators and coal sheds of the company. Attend the Logan ball next Friday night. Tae MiLesBURG CARRIAge WORKS BurNED.—At an early hour Sunday morning the extensive carriage works owned and operated by L. C. Bullock, in Qentral City, a part of Milesburg were. discovered to be on fire. The flames broke out in the paint shops on the second floor and spread with such rapidity that very little of the contents of the buildings could be saved. The proximity of Wagner's big flour mill and a numbar of frame dwelling houses together with the entire absence of any organized means of fighting the flames made the situation extremely serious. An appeal for help was telephoned to this place and officer Gares;;wakened up Fire Marshall J. Mitchell Cunningham. He, thinking it best not to; ring in an alarm, went around and wakened a few members of the Logan Steamer Com- pany, who responded at the engine house with a promptness that was surprising. In just fifty minutes from the time the appeal was telephoned up the engine- men were at the fire, nearly three miles distant, and working like Trojans to save property for the citizens of Milesburg. There work was thoroughly appreciated and their start from town was made go quietly that very few persons were aroused. Considerable unfinished work and many vehicles, which were in the shops for repairs, wera lost in the fire. Upon the buildings, which were almost new, Mr. Bullock carried $1,000 insurance: On their contents he carried $1.570 against which he estimates his loss at $4,000. The fire was of incendiary origin. A Hoo0-Do0-ED QUARTER.—On one side of the new 25-cent pieces there are nine repetitions of the number thirteen. There are thirteen stars, thirteen letters in the scroll held in the eagle’s beak, thirteen marginal feathers in each wing, thirteen tail feathers, thirteen parallel lines in the shield, thirteen horizontal bars, thirteen arrow headsin one claw, thirteen leaves on the branch in the other claw, and thirteen letters in the words ‘‘quarter dollar.” There hasn’t seemed to be anything unlucky in the thirteen original states nor in the thir- teen stripes on the flag, and row it re- mains to be seen if the man who gets his pockets full of these new quarter dollars will find them unlucky. OFF For CURWENSVILLE.--On Wed- pesday morning a little party of Belle- fonters started for Cucrwensville, Clear- field county where they will make their home for awhile. They were marshall- ed by Michael Hays, the bess quarry- man, and while some of them will go to work in the Snyder Brothers’ quarry the rest will do masonry on the bridge abutments along the line of the new railroad. seemed, after the first alarm, flames lege, butchered a hog, on Monday, that shot out through every crevice in the : 4.o.caq 777 lbs. . Ee ——— ——Philipsburg is having trouble with burglars. Ladies fur trimmed jackets and reefers from $4.75 to $15 00. Lyon & Co Jacob Krumrine, of State Col- Our little girls winter coats all | beautiful styles with long caps $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, $4.00, and up to $10.00 Lyon & Co. ——Chas. P. Long, of Spring Mills, has purchased the general store of D. Bible, in that place. ——The greatest line of children’s and misses coats from $1.25 to $10.00. Lyon & Co. ——1If you want to laugh until your sides ache see “Little Trixie” at the opera house next Friday night, ——Two hundred men’s winter coats $1.50, $1.75, $2.00Lyon & Co. ——F. O. Hosterman, for a number of years a merchant and post master at Fiedler, will move to Millheim after January lst. ——Clearfielders will listen to ex-U. S. Senator Jno. J. Ingalls and Hon. Henry W. Watterson during the first month of the new year. ——The Millheim hardware man, S. D. Musser, will move to Scran- ton where he will embark in the musical instrument business. —A beautiful line of ladies fall coats in tan and other light shades and black for $3.50 to $12.00. Lyon & Co —— President Harrison has been in- vited to the opening of the new Mechan- ical Engineering building at State Col- lege, which will be made in the latter part of February. — Ladies, misses and children’s fall and winter coats all in, already, and a great big line it is. Lyon & Co. ——As a parting injunction to our readers we would say patronize only those merchants who advertise. The others are not catering to your trade and you should not bestow it on people who dont care for it. Boys cheviot suits for boys from 5 to 14 years double breasted cheviots and single $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 $4.00, $5.00 and $6.00 nobby stylish good Quads in black, brown tan &c. Lyon o. THE PRESBYTERIAN PIPE ORGAN, — The new $3,000 pipe organ which is to be placed in the remodeled Presbyterian church has arrived and issaid to be a handsome instrument. 1t was made by the firm of Hook & Hastings, Boston, Mass., and is encased in quartered oak with pipe colorings to harmonize with the decorations in the church. There are 32 stops and 6 pedals on the organ giving it a compass which is suf- ficient for any demand of church service. A grand organ recital will be given on the evening of January 13th, 1893, when a number of noted musicians from a distance will be here to participate. CounciL MxeTiNG.—Council met on Monday evening and transacted the following business : The Street committee reported cross- ings laid on Allegheny street and across the Lewistown pike. Fire and Police committee reported needed repairs for the Logan hose car- riage and for the Undive Co. The Street committee suggested that J. S. Waite & Co., be not allowed to raise the board walk in front of their buildings, on Water street. Council acted and refused permission. Upon motion Collector S. D. Ray was in- structed to settle his tax duplicates for 190 and '91. Council approved of chief Burgess Mingle’s action in offering a reward of $300 for the detection of in- candiarism. InsTiTUTE NEXT WEEK.--On Mon- day morning the public school teachers of this county will convene in the Court House to undergo the instructions which Sup’t Gramley has laid down for the 461h annual session of Institute. The attractions for the week are many and varied. Thespeakess are Gen. D. H. Hastings, Gen. James A. Beaver Hon. John H. Orvis, Dr. Geo. W. Atherton, President of the Penna. State College, Rev. W. E. Fischer, of Centre Hall, and others. On the list of instruc- tors are to be found the names of such educators as Prof. James M. Coughlin, of Wilkesbarre, Major James M. Lee, of West Virginia, Prof. A. D. Meloy, of the Lock Haven Normal school, Prof, J. D. Anderson, of Philipsburg, and A. Judson Smith, of New Millport, Pa. On Tuesday evening Maj. Lee will lecture ou “Why You Should Black the Heels of Your Boots.” On Wednesday evening the superb Ladies Schumann Concert Company will entertain the people and on Thurslay evening Jno. R. Clark, will lecture on ‘‘Hits and | Misses’’. One ot the features of the evening’s entertainments will be the presence of i the full Bellefonte orchestra under the | Local notices, per line.....c.c..... ! direction of Prof, Meyers. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE ON ALL 20aDs.—On last Monday morning a general change of schedule went into effect on all lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The following are the changes of time at Bellefonte. For the Bald Eagle Valley : TRAINS WEST. Leave Bellefonte: 5.35 a.m. is 1028 “ p.m. ft TRAINS EAST. Lv. Bellefonte: 9.32a. m* Ar, Lock Haven 10.37 48 f* 430 p. m. © * se 5.25 Ep.m. « # “9.50 Over the Lewisburg and Tyrone road trains will leave Bellefonte at 6.20 in the morning and at 2.15 in the after- noon, arriving at Montandon at 9.10 and 4.55 respectively. On the Snow Snow branch the trains will leave Bellefonte at 10.33 a. m. and at 5.25 p. m. Connections on the main line at Ty- rone, Lock Haven and Montandon are practically the esme. Our readers had better cut this out until our big sched. ule on the inside is corrected. Ar. Tyrone 6.52 we anes “ “ $e 6.33 “ ——Men’s cheviot suits in black, brown, woodbrown, double breasted or single $5.00, $6 00, $7.00, $8.00, $10.00 and 12.00. The handsomest styles best making and sewing, good goods and nobby styles. Lyon & Co. Diep AT ScoTis.—Joshua Gorsuch, one of the best known residents of Scotia this county, retired in his usual good health on Monday night, but when his wife went to arouse him at his usual waking hour Tuesday morning he seem- to be sleeping heavily. She tried to waken him, but he did not move and while she was still trying to get him up he breathed his last. Deceased was 61 years of age and for years was boss blacksmith at the Carne- gie mines at Scotia. During the last few years he has been interested, with his son, in a general mercantile business. A wife, a son and a daughter mourn the loss of a husband and a father who wag universally esteemed. He was a mem- ber of Tyrone lodge, No. 494 F. and A. M. Funeral services were held in Gray's Methodist church yesterday at 1:30 p. m. —— Overcoats of all styles and grades light, tan, brown, silk lined, silk faced from $7.00 to $15.00. Lyon & Co. WEATHER PREDICTIONS.- According to a weather prophet’s lunar cycle rule the winter of 1892-93 will be more than usually severe and long continued. The snow will be deep aud we will have six oreight weeks good sleighing. But we may console ourselves by the fact that this winter will not be as severe as the one which isto follow in 1893-94. According to the same authority next Spring will be late and cool, the summer will be shorter than usual and of a tem- perature not above the average. There will be generally abundant crops of fruit, grain and bay. ————— ——The following letters remain uncalled for.in the Bellefonte P. O. Dec. 19, 1892. David Bunell @. George Butts, Laura Bouons, Florence McDonald, J. Kicice, A. E. Neilerger, Harry Tobias, Ada V. Yearick. When called tor please say advertised. J. A. FIEDLER, P. M. ——Wao are all ready for fall and winter. The grandest line of children misses and ladies coats just opened. Ly- on & Co. ——Ready made clothing in all its branches. Storm coats, Overcoats, Suits for men, boys and children. Tailoring a specialty, Suits made to order. MonTaoMERY & Co. —— Don’t miss seeing those $10 suits at Fauble's. REST I Bellefonte Grain Market. Corrected weekly by Go. W. Jackson & Co: The following ste the quotations up tosix o'clock, Thursday evening, when our papex oes to press : hite wheat...........c sessessensres 66 Old wheat, per bushel... 70 Red wheat, per bushel n 70 Rye, per bushel....... 60 Corn, ears, per bush 224 Corn, shelled, per bushel......ceeeeeensannniens 50 Qats—new, per bushel... 35 Barley, per bushel......... 48 Ground Plaster, per ton.. Buckwheat per bushel Cloverseed, per bushe: ————— Bellefonte Produce Markets. Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co Potatoes per bushel .. ail 0B Eggs, per dozen.. i 25 Lard, per pound.. 10 CountryShoulder: . 8 Sides... ee 8 Hams..... 124 Tallow, per pound... Butter, per pound... 25 The Democratic Watchman. 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