Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., March 3, 1893.
P. GRAY MEEK, = . -
EpiTor
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Democratic County Committee for
1893.
DISTRICTS. COMMITTEEMEN.
te, No. W......cinrees wenneenili A. Shaeffer.
ii ed a
WwW. WwW
Centre Hall Boro.
Howard Boro....... eairive Abe Weber.
$e .A. M. Butler.
Milesburg “ ... ny panier.
Millheim R adiecty hi
Philipsburg or; 15) ,
“ “ 3rd W.
_F, K. White.
.W. J. Howe.
South Philipsburg...... John Hoffman
Unionville BOro....cceeuiiieineianiannnns E. M. Greist.
Benner Township... Daniel Heckman
Boggs a“ N P.. Geo. W. Brown
‘5 i E.P. .G. H. Leyman.
“ “AWLP aan Geo. Noll.
Buraside . *f .. ..... ...0scar Holt
College 5 E. :
“ .“ Ww.
Curtin . i os
Ry 5H: Miter.
“ 5
ross “ EB ow .David Sower.
“ “ Ww.
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Bugs ." ¥ 735 Bonet.
“ . P. Sebring.
A oR. P. H Meyer.
Howard Franklin Deitz
Huston ....0. H. Nason.
Liberty * .Henry Weaver.
Marion ** .cestsresreeniissesrnss James Martin.
Miles 4 Jeremiah Brumgart.
, 4 Austin Gramley.
“ te Jsooh Pietrich
" .D. L. Mee
Paen 5 ae . g Stoger
+ .Geo. Emerick.
Toyer es rn Ws as or
it “Pe. ...Miles Seigfried.
i te re Bases Patrick Hofven.
te oP reyron obiecproreen no. D. Brown.
Spe Shoe, Frank Tubridy
te
Spring “ John Mulfinger.
A V. Hamilton.
“ [0
p gt Vinton Beckwith
Dario hi ; P.J. Loughrey.
Walker *¢ ed .+-een.Sol. Peck.
Worth #1 evrrrsssriirinn ss sri G. J. Woodring.
W.G. RUNKLE, J. C. MEYER,
Secretary. Chairman
EE EEE Ry.
Unfaithful Democrats.
In looking over the late election re-
turns for the borough of Bellefonte the
interest of those who pay any attention
whatever to the vote can not help but
be aroused at the peculiar nature of
the result as compared with that of the
preceding Spring’s election. Certain it
is that a greater lot of wire pulling and
ward manipulation is noticeable in the
result in this Spring than has been
brought out for years. The strange
doings in the South ward have been the
source of much conjecture but the
stranger doings in the West ward are
equally strange.
If the Democrats of the West ward
had done their duty at the last two an-
nual elections, the borough council
would now be in our control. In 1892
Dr. Kirk, the Democratic candidate
tor council, received 45 Democratic
and 24 Republican votes, making a
total of 69 against Wu. HiLLiish, the
Republican candidate, who received 63
Republican "and 7 Democratic votes
with a total of 70. A majority of one
over Kirk.
In 1893 Dr. Kirk received 36 Dem-o
cratic votes and 17 Republican votes,
makiog him a total of 53, while C. T.
GERBERICH, his Republican opponent,
polied 56 Republican and 4 Democrat-
ic votes, making him a total of 60, thus
giving him a major ity of 7.
Now it will be readily seen, if one
more Democrat bad voted for
Kirk, in 1892, and one less for HiLLi-
BISH, the former would have been
elected. At the recent election if the
four Democrats who voted for ‘for GER-
BERICE had had the courage of
their convictions and voted for Dr.
KIrg, as they shtould have, the Re-
publicans would not now be laughing
at us and boasting of their ability to
manipulate our votes. s
The Republicans of the West ward,
who voted for Dr. Kirk, did so for the
purpose of unloading the jobbers in
their party, whose patriotism seems to
eonsist in personal gain, daring their
terms of office, at the expense of the
tax-payers. We advise Democrats to
consider what they are doing before
they cut the ticket in the future.
A Floating Bulwark.
The launching of the Indiana, at
Philadelphia, on Tuesday, was another
step towards the completion of
a trio of battle ehips for the United
States navy that will indeed make a
formidable foe for any of the strongest
maritime powers of the globe. The
Massachusetts and the Oregon are the
only two other modern men of war
which our government could call up-
on, with any degree of assurance, in
time of need.
It is a significant fact that the new
navy which Secretary WHiTNEY began
building during the previous CLEVELAND
administration should have reached such
a state of completion just three days
before the party which fostered his
commendable effort to put the United
States on an equal naval footing with
any power in the world should come
to take up the reins of government
again. During that administration
boats were contracted for and money
appropriated in sufficient amounts to
make the beginning which augured so
well, but now when that party again
makes its advent in power it finds the
Treasury in such a condition that un-
less some unforseen source of revenue
arises it will be imposeible to continue
on the great work which Mr. WHITNEY
began eight years ago.
No country is safe without enough
power atsea to force respect for its
rights and properly defend its claims
and its coast-line. Until recently the
United States has gotten along with a
navy which filled no better purpose
than a few old tubs might have done,
her territory was constantly in jeopardy
and little third and fourth rate powers
made her quake every time they found
it pleasant.
The floating bulwark of a nation, its
navy, can never be a source of any-
thing else than pride. “Thus far the
new ships have been armored and un-
armored cruisers, chiefly the latter.
Now for the first.time the country has
afloat modern battle ships capable of
coping, on equal terme, with any ships
in the world.
It is a satisfaction to own such ships
The country will be fortunate if it is
never under the necessity of employing
them.” While that government is
most fortunate that is never called up-
on to exercige its right by force of arms,
yet it is weak if it has not sufficient
power to command respect.
The misfortune that befell Gov-
ernor McKINLEY, of Ohio, last week
was one of those unforseen disasters
that rob men of their all just at a time
when they most need it. Having en-
dorsed $70,000 worth of paper for a
life long friend, a banker in Youngs-
town, Mr. McKINLEY finds himself al-
most peuniless at the call of the lat-
ter’s creditors. Had the blow fallen a
little earlier in life it would not have
been so hard, but now with years well
advanced there is danger of all his
property being dragged down in the
wreck.
The M’Kinley Failure.
A New | Version of the Affair Current in Ohio,
Paper Running for Years. The Original
Story That McKinley Lent His Name Out of
Pure Friendship and That He Was the Viec-
tim of His briend’s Financial Crash is Now
Declared to be Untrue.
CinciNNaTI, February 27.—Develop-
ments of to-day place the financial at-
fairs of Governor McKinley in an en-
tirely different light from that which
the case has already assumed. Like a
thunderbolt trom a clear sky came the
news that McKinley had been made a
bankrupt through the treachery of a
friend who induced McKinley, ‘his old
neighbor,” to indorse for him and, fail-
ing, had dragged the governor down.
The Governor, so the story went, was
an innocent and abused party.
This story was generally accepted,
though there were many who refused
to believe’ a man of the ability of Me-
Kinley so unwise. Now comes a sec-
ond and more interesting chapter.
The story goes that Governor Me-
Kinley’s liabilities, instead of being
$118 000, are nearer $200,000, and the
Governor is not merely the indorser of
the notes ‘involved in the transaction,
ag first reported, but the maker of these
notes, which are circulating about the
country in amounts ranging from $1,
000 to $15,000.
These notes, it is claimed, were made
by the Governor to Robert Walker, of
Youngstown, whose recent failure
brought the crash, and represented
thousands of dollars used in a coal
mine venture near Connellsville, Pa.,
in which McKinley and Walker were
jointly interested.
RUNNING FOR YEARS.
The notes in question have been run-
ning, it is said, tor four or five years
and the wonder has been among those
aware of the situation that the crisis
was not reached long before it came.
Viewed in such a light as that thrown
around it by the story told now, the
whole affair puts the Governor in the
position of a man who ventured and
lost, not that of a man who was over-
taken by misforture through the fault
of others.
There is another story to the effect
that Andrew J. Dancan, who formerly
lived in this State, but who is now in
the far West, and who claims to be a
brother in-law of Governor McKinley,
was a partner with the Governor and
Walker in a stamping mill project, bat
was frozen out of the firm. Concern-
ing the above the following special was
received this evening from Youngs:
town, Walker’s home:
In regard to the story about Gov-
ernor Mc Kinley’s loss many notes have
been found which bear the name of
Governor McKinley as principal and
Walker as an indorser.
The friends of McKinley, who are
trying to make the Governor pose as a
victim of a friend's treachery, say in
explanatian of this that the Governor
signed the notes that way so that it
would be easier for Walker to get
money.
Appropriation to Explore the Polar
Regions,
WasHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Mr. Scott,
of Illinois, introduced in the house to-
day (by request) a bill appropriating
$250,000 to promote the complete ex-
ploration of the polar regions, The ex-
plorations are to be made by officers of
the army and navy under direction of
the president.
Honors for Hensel,
LANCASTER, Feb. 27.--Attorney Gen-
eral W. U. Hensel to-day received an
appointment as aide de camp to General
Martin T. McMahon, grand marshal of
the inaugural parade, and also as a
member of the special committee to re-
ceive President Cleveland. He was also
appointed a member of the reception | crowd gathered at the station were for an extra session— about twenty-five
committee of the inaugural ball,
An Extra Session of the Senate.
Called to Confirm the New Cabinet.—Oficial
Notice of the Present Incumbent’s Term in the
Presidential Chair—Since 1841 Congress Has
Been Called to Meet in Special Session But
Four Times—Reason Why it Was Than Con-
voked.
WasHiNGgTON, Feb. 26.—President
Harrison yesterday took official notice
of the near approach of the end of his
term, when he issued a proclamation
convening the senate in extra session
on the 4th., of March, to enable the
senate to “advise and consent” to the
cabinet selected by the incoming pres-
ident. It is also customary at the
session to send in the names of miuis-
ters selected for the most important
foreign posts and other leading offices
at home. There was some talk to-day
in connection with the issuing of the
proclamation, whether or not a presi-
dent had ever convened congress as a
whole in special session by proclama-
tion issued just previous to his retire-
ment from office. An examination
of the records shows that this was never
done.
The earliest date at which a new
congress ever assembled ‘after the in-
auguration of a president was May 15,
1797, when President Adame called
the two houses together to consider the
situation of diplomatic relations with
France.
In 1841 President William Henry
Harrison convened congress in special
session on May 31, by proclamation is-
sued March 17, but before the assem-
bling of the body he had died and Mr-
Tyler was in the chair. The occasion
for this special session was the condi-
tion of the finances and the revenue.
It may be of interest in this connec:
tion, the discussion of the probabilities
of a special session, to state that since
1841 congress has been called in special
geesion but four times: In 1856, be-
cause of the failure to pass the army
appropriation bill ; in 1861, because of
the war; in I877, because of failure to
pass the legislative and executive ap-
propriation bill, and in 1879, because
of a fight over the appropriation for
the United States marshals in the same
bill.
Cleveland's Inaugural Address.
He Has Carcfully Written Out What He Intends
to Say.
Brookry~, Feb. 17.—St. Clair Me-
Kelway, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle.
who has been for several days at Lake-
wood, writes his paper as follows:
“Grover Cleveland’s inaugural address
will contain about 1,700 words and will
be more general than specific in char-
acter. Mr. Cleveland has carefully,
written cut what he desires to say, but
will speak at the inauguration without
manuscript, only referring to topical
notes to refresh his memory. The ad-
dress will express Mr. Cleveland's pro-
found gratitude to the people for the
honor thus a second time conferred
upon him as a mark of confidence: in
him and belief in the principles upon
which he was elected.
His utterances upon the financial
policy, tariff and economy of adminis
tration will be decisive and frank.
Confidence iu Democratic principles as
able to deal with the problems of the
labor and capital, sectional divisions
and political unrest will be expressed.
The abolitution of federal interference
with elections in the states wiil, it is
said, be treated as a recognized deci-
sion of the people. The pension de-
partment, the new navy, a rigorous
quarantine and the regulation of immi-
gration will probably receive attention.
The president may not refer openly to
the question of the annexation of Haw-
ail, but will take a conservative stand
on the subject and not act hastily.
Launching of the Indiana.
Secretary of the Navy Tracy, Postmaster Gener-
al Wanamaker, Attorney General Miller and
Senators Voorhees and Turple Were Present—
Miss Jessie Miller Was the Christener—Dem~
wnstration When the Vessel Went Into the Wa-
er.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 28.—The great.
battleship Indiana was successfully
launched to-day at the ship yard of
the William Cramp and Sons company
in the presence of thousands of people,
among them the president of the
United States, the secretary of the
vavy and the other members of the
cabinet and quite a large delegation of
congressmen and others, who arrived
from Washington this morning on a
special train.
A line was formed and the christen:
ing party proceeded to where the bat
tleship lay and took positions on a
raised platform at the bow. The noise
of 500 workmen making the final pre-
parations reechoed between the In-
diana’s sister ships Massachusetts, on
the south, and cruiser No. 13, the
Minneapolis, to the north, for a quar-
given to ‘saw the ways.” Just as the
4,200 tons of steel started down the
incline Migs Miller broke the custom-
ary bottle of champagoe, it being en-
cased in a beautiful hand painted and
embroidered satin cover, across the
bow, and firmly said “I christen thee
Indiana.”
Stevenson in Washington.
WasHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Vice-Presi-
dent-elect Stevenson and party reached
the national capital at 6.05, the jour-
ney from their Bloomington home
having occupied thirty-four hours to
the minute. General Stevenson stuck
to his determination to make no ad-
dresses on the trip. The train was
due here at 4.10 o'clock and at that
hour 200 or 300 people were assembled
in and about the depot to welcome
bim. In the two hours that had
elapsed before the train reached its
destination that crowd had doubled,
and when Mr. Stevenson appeared a
loud cheer went up, Mrs. Stevenson,
escorted hy Mr. James IL. Norris,
chairman of the executive Democratic
committee, followed, and the whole
party entered carriages and were driv- |
i en to the Ebbitt House. Among the!
"quite a number of ladies.
‘check was drawn.
Mitchell will start for St. Louis, from
ter of an hour, and thea the order was |
| a force that was terrific.
The President-Elect’'s Cabinet Now
Complete. |
President-elect Cleveland pronounces
that be has completed bis cabinet by !
the selection of Richard Olney, of Bos-
ton, for Attorney General, and Hillary
A. Herbert, of Alabama, for Secretary !
of the Navy. The complete cabinet is
as follows .
Walter Q. Gresham, of Indiana, Sec-
retary of Siate. |
John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, Secre-
tary of the Treasury.
Daniel S. Lamont, of New York Sec-
retary of War.
Hillary A. Herbert, of Alabama, Sec-
retary of the Navy.
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, Secretary of
the Interior.
J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, Secre-
tary of Agriculture.
Wilson S. Bissell, of New York,
Post Master General.
Richard Olney, of Massachusetts, At-
torney Genertl.
The selection of Mr. Herbert for the
navy has been expected for several days,
but Mr. Olney’s name had not been
mentioned in connection with the cabi-
net and this selection is a surprise to
everybody, particularly to the friends of
George A. Jenks, of Pennsylvania.
Hillary A. Herbert has been in Con-
gress for many years and has acted as
Chairman of the Naval Committee of
the House. He is thoroughly familiar
with the work to be done toward plac-
ing the United States navy on a proper
footing and his knowledge of the pre-
sent condition of the vessels under con-
struction and those which shall be plan-
ned, makes him a most desirable man
for the head of the department. His se-
lection is also practically a promotion.
Colonel Herbert is a devoted personal
friend of Hon. William McAleer, of
Philadelphia, and is Chairman of the
committee on naval affairs of which
McAleer is a prominent member. Mr.
McAleer was one of Herbert's most ar-
dant supporters for the position.
Richard Olney is one of the leading
practitioners of the Massachusetts bar.
He has not held any political position or
been prominent in political matters,
but is known as one of the leading law-
yers and substantial citizens of Boston.
His selection gives New England a re-
presentative in a cabinet and that of
Herbert gives the South three positions.
The Appropriation Bill Calls for the
Sum of $166,500,000 for Pensions.
Much More Needed Next Year.—Itis Expected
that $200,000,000 Will Be Required atthe Com-
ing Session—Senator Colquitt Makes His Ap-
pearance in the Chamber—The Indian Appro-
priation and Car Coupler Bills Fassed in the
House. Disorderly Representatives.
‘WasniNGToN. Feb. 27.—The pension
appropriation bill was passed by the
senate to-day without any amendment.
It appropriates for army and navy pen-
sions (including widows and minor
children) $166,500,000 aud about $1,-
500, 000, in addition for fees of exam-
ing surgeons, clerk hire at pension
agencies and some small items. Mr.
Gorman commented upon the magni-
tude of the pension appropriations and
gave it as his opinion that it would be
necessary to appropriate $200,000,000
for pensions next session. ,
There was a general expression of
opinion in the discussion which took
place, that no material reduction could
be effected, except through a repeal or
modification of some of the laws on the
subject, and that there was no proba-
bility of such a thing: Senator Col-
quitt, of Georgia, made his appearance
in the senate chamber to-day for the
first time this session, and he was the
object of sympathetic attention on the
part of his feilow-senators. The day
closed with the delivery of eulogies up-
on the late Senator Kenna, of West
Virginia.
Mitchell’s Money Up.
The Fight Between Charlie and Pompad ur
Jim Now Assured.
Boston, Feb. 26.—-Charlie Mitchell
and 'Squire Abington Baird came on
from New York last night and this af.
ternoun met David Blanchard, prelim-
inary holder of the’ Corbett- Mitchell
stakes. After the conference both
Baird and Blanchard said that neither
the ‘Squire nor Mitchell had paid over
the $10,000 to cover Corbett’s {orteit,
ane yet Blanchard admitted that he held
that sum to cover Corbett’s money for
Mitchell, though he would not say by
whom paid nor upon what bank the
All this mystery is to get around the
New York law. To-morrow Baird and
whence they will proceed to New Or-
leans. After the fights in that city
both will return to England and Mitch-
ell will begin training. He will return
to America eight weeks before the big
fight and promises to be promptly on
hand to meet the big Californian.
Seven Persons Were Crushed to Death
in Chicago Yesterday Morning.
No Warning Was Given Them—Heavy Winds
Overturned the Toppling Walls of a Dry
Goods Establishment, Recently Burned— List
of the Killed and Injured.—In Addition to the
Dead One Person Was Fatally Hurt—Search
For Bodies Still Continuing.
CHicAGo, Feb. 28—It 18 now known
that seven persons were crushed to
death at 1.80 o'clock this morning, when
a heavy wind overturned the tuppling
walls of the recently burned dry goods
establishment of John York, at Hal-
sted and Nineteenth streets, and an
enormous mass of brick, mortar and
timber fell upon a two-story structure
adjoining, occupied by the family of
John Smith, a saloon keeper and James
Kunz, a jeweler, smashing the building
and occupants without warning. In
addition to the killed, one person was
fatally injured and two more were dan-
gerously hurt. York's wall was five
stories in height, and it came down with
An Explanation of Certain Anxiety.
From the Pittsburg Press.
There are always numerous reasons
| features.
tor each office,
Will Try to Remove McLeod. |
NEw York, Feb. 27.—The Post's |
' London financial article says: Fiat and |
idle markets prevailed to day without |
The committee of stock ex-
change members interested in the Read-
ing railroad generally, met and resolved
to telegraph to the Pennsylvania com-
pany, as trustees for the income mort-
gage, urging all possible efforts to re-
move McLeod from the receivership.
Calamity Without Modifications.
From the Chester Times.
ThejDemocratic majority is all right.
We can stand that, but they teli us the
peach crop is frcst-bitten, too.
Auditor General Gregg as an Editor.
From the Huntingdon Journal.
Auditor General Gregg is making a
good record—a good Legielative Ree
ord especially,
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
—————
W. I. Fleming was a Philipsburg
visitor on Tuesday.
——March came in like a lamb.
‘Will it go out like the — ?
—— There yet remains three hundred
and three days of 1893 to be lived.
—— Curwensville wants to put a ball
team in some league next season.
——Pennsylvania’s building at the
World’s Fair will be dedicated on April
29th.
—Mr. and Mrs. Isanc Worth, of
Chester county, are visiting their daugh-
ter Mrs. E. R. Chambers.
——The Easter bonnet is beginning
to sing “Peek-a boo” to the average
husband’s bank account.
——The Woman’s Foreign Mission-
ary Society of the Huntingdon Presby-
tery is in session in Philipsburg.
—J. W. Corl, of McKeesport, vis-
ited relatives near Pine Hall last week.
He took in the big day at’ the College
also.
——A pleasant caller on Wednesday
morning was Mr. Harpster, of Gates-
burg, a son of our esteemed friend Sam-
uel Harpster.
——The venerable Samuel Shugert,
of this place, who has been so danger-
ously ill in Philipsburg, is able to be
about again we are glad to say.”
——Bickford and McCormick’s saw
mill, at Lock Haven, will.pot be oper-
ated this summer. © The loss. of another
industry will be felt in our’ sister town.
——The venerable William Fisher,
the Bald Eagle nurseryman, was in
town on Tuefday arranging for the sale
of the trees and shrubbery he will have
ready for the Spring trade.
——1In another column of this paper
will be found the annual statement of
the Mutual Lite Insurance Co. of New
York. It will pay you to look it up
and see the healthy condition of this
wonderful organization.
—— The West ward election board, at
the recent election held in this place,
was composed of five men whose aver-
age age was sixty years. They were
James H. Rankin Esq., Jonathan Mil-
ler, David Barclay, Valentine Smith
and John Shreffler Esq.
——A Curwensville woman swept up
her floor the other morning and dumped
the sweepings into the cook stove. No
sooner had she done =o than there was a
terrific explosion which demolished
everything in the room and almost kill-
ed the woman. A dynamite cap caused
the trouble.
——A merry party of young folks
from Unionville, came down on Tues-
day, February 21st, and invaded the
home of J. F. Stover, at 132 Beaver St.
They came down at four o’cloek, bring-
ing their suppers with them, and had a
jolly time, until nine, when they all piled
in the sled and started merrily home-
ward.
——1In a few days Mrs. Robert Gil-
more will move into her new store room
in the Brockerhoff House. It is one of
the most desirable locations in the town
and the room itself has been refitted and
decorated until it is a suitable place for
the beautiful novelties she is now
displaying. Mrs. Gilmore has a first
class line of millinery, fancy goods and
underwear, but she will add largely to
her stock, and her real hair goods will
be one of the features of her new store.
MARRIAGE Licenses, —Issued during
the past week-—Taken from the
docket.
Thomas M. Weaver and Rebecca M.
Runkle, both of Spring Twp.
John W. Mills, of Des Moines, Iowa,
and Mrs. Annie R. Hoffman, Mifflin-
burg.
Charles J. V. Thomas and Mrs.
Alice Stowers, both of Bellefonte.
Geo. C. Kessinger, of Hublersburg,
and May G. Struble, of Zion,
John A. Minnich and Mary Lose,
both of Madisonburg.
John Kline and Kate Olewine, both
of Bellefonte.
—- Adam Hess, one of Boalshurg’s
most estemed citizens, died at his home
in that place last Saturday morning.
Deceased was 67 yeers old and was a
brother of Mrs. H. Y. Stitzer, of this
place. His widow, two sons and a
daughter survive him: Funeral ser-
vices were held Tuesday morning.
—— Mr. Philip Durst, one of Potter
township’s best of citizens, was in town
on Tuesdey and made a pleasant call at
this office. Mr. Jucob Ripka, another
prosperous farmer from near Centre
Hall, came over on Wednesday to trans-
act business in town and remembered
that the WATCHMAN is always glad to
welcome its friends. Mr. Ripka has an
idea that March will be a stormy
month. He bases his prophecy on the
old saying, “the way the last Friday of
the month preceding, will be the weath-
er of the following month.” The last
Friday in February was very blustery
80 look out for a bad March.
—— With the first of this month Ed-
gar T. Burnside, so long and so credita-
bly associated with the Berwind-White-
Coal Mining Company’s office in this
place began work in the new field which
he has chosen for himself. He is the
youngest son of the late Thomas Burnside
and during his eight years connection
with the Berwind- White Co., has proved
himself a young man of sterling business
qualifications and most exemplary bab-
its. 'In securing the services of such
an one the Standard Scale and Supply
Co., of Pittsburg, whose works are at
this place and into which he goes as an
assistant manager, has added a name to
its list of attachees which will bring
nothing but hotor to the firm and suc-
cess to its bearer.
—-—On Tuesday morning Miss Ellen
Harris one of the oldest residents of the
town died at her home on Spring street
in the eighty-eighth year of her age.
Miss Harris was born near Montours-
ville.in Lycoming county, and came to
Bellefonte in 1841 with her brother-in-
law the late John Kidd Shoemaker, who
owned and controlled the Democratic
Whig the sixteen years of its existence.
She out-lived all the members of her
sister’s family, and for years had lived
alone in the little house across the street
from the Presbyterian chapel.
She was a granddaughter of William
Winters, one of the first settlers on the
site of the present city of Williamsport,
and a niece of Mrs. Judge Huston,
Mrs. Judge Burnside, Mrs. Thomas
Alexander—her daughter was the late
Mrs. E. C. Humes and Mrs. W. W.
Potter, whose husband was congressman
from this district in 1836 and ’38. On
her father’s side she was connected with
the Samuel Harris family, of which
Mr. John P. and Mr. Henry Harris are
members.
OugHT To BE FULL oF THEM.—If
the number of trout and other fish that
have been put into the streams of this
county during the past four years, are
any evidence of the number that are
now in them most of our creeks should
be bank full and some of them would
be so overstocked that it would be nee-
essary to carry water to supply those
that would be crowded out. Unfor-
tunately, for some reasons unknown,
there are but few more fish now in the
different waters of the county, than Le-
fore the process of re-stocking was be-
gun. Why this is so we do not know,
Some attribute it to the fact that the
young fish are dumped in without any
regard to surroundings and that before
they are large enough to hunt hiding
places, or to take care of themselves, are
eaten by the larger trout that are native
to our streams ; others to the fact that
on most of our creeks, and particularly
those not in the mountainous regions,
ducks and geese are allowed free access
and destroy them by the thousands,
while others contend that they are
caught out fully as fast as they are re-
plenished. It is possible that to all of
these reasons more or less can be attri-
buted the fact, that with almost every
stream within the county fully and lib-
erally stocked every year, there is but
seemingly small increase in the number
of fish now in them, and that trout fish-
ing, particularly, is but little if any bet-
ter, than it was priorto the time that
efforts were made to replenish them.
That the State has done its part to
give us plenty of fish is shown by the
number that have been sent to different
individuals applying for them, and
which we get from the Report of the
Fish Commissioners, that is just pub-
lished covering its work for 1889-'90.791.
It will be seen that from the liberality
that has been extended us, any scarcity
of fish must be attributed to false ideas
as to the system of re-stocking, or a lack
of proper protection after the streams
are replenished. The number of trout
and other young fish sent to the county
during the years named as is follows.
188) —BROOK TROUT FRY :
Thomas F. Riley.......... Boalsburg............ 7,500
T. V. Hunter..... {aslo JI . 2,600
L. 8, Bricker. Yon uw 2,500
A. E. Gearhar hilipsbur, ,000
J. H. Holt... .Moshannen.. 0,000
A. R. Hall... Fleming. .. 5,000
Benper's Run Ass’¢'n... “ . 5,000
Isaac Thomas, ......eeeeeine Bellefonte... ..10,000
Chas. Heissler... dons Fil SW oe . 2,500
W. N. Allison... ....8pring Mills. « 5,000
Steven Woodring.. .Port Matilda . 2,600
Total .... . 62,500