Demon Yip
Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., May ll, 1894,
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Ebprror
ES ——
Notice for Primary Elections and Coun-
ty Convention.
The Democratic voters of Centre
county will meet at the regular places
for holding the general elections in the
respective election districts. on Satur-
day June 9th, 1894, to elect delegates
to the County Convention. Under the
rules of the party, the election will
open at 3 o'clock P. M. and close at 7
o'clock P. M. The delegates chosen
at the above stated time will meet at
the Court House, in Bellefonte, on Tues-
day, June 12th, 1894, at 12 o'clock,
noon, and nominate two candidates for
Assembly, one candidate for Asso-
ciate Judge, one candidate for Jury
Commissioner, and elect four delegates
to the State Convention for 18%4; a
chairman of the County Committee to
serve from January first 1895, for one
year, and to transact such other busi-
ness as the interests of the party may
require.
APPORTIONMENT OF DELEGATES,
The number of delegates to which
each election district is entitled, based
upon the vote for presidential electors
in 1892, is as follows :—
Bellefonte, N. W. Haines, W. P..........
8 Se W...ais Halfmoon
sw aWeW
Milesburg **
Centre Hall
Millheim....
Philipsburg, 2
on ard W...
Scuth Philipsburg ...1
Unionville...............1
“! BP.
Burnside..... Snow Shoe
College, E. P.. ud Er... 2
“WP. Spring, 8. P.... d
Curtin ....coserss h N, ol
Ferguson, E. P. R te WW. P.ivees
“ilu: W.P, 1 Taylors
Gregg, E. P... 3 Union...
wON.P. 2 Walker
i iP... 2 Worth.........
Haines, E. P..... ......2
Necessary for a nomination, 47.
On the 24th of April 1894, the Coun-
ty Committee apportioned the county
into nine Delegate Districts, as fol-
lows :
First District Miles east, middle and west
precincts ; Haines east and west precincts.
Second. Millheim boro, Penn, Gregg east
and west precincts.
Third. Gregg north precinct, Potter north
and south precincts and Centre Hall boro.
Fourth. Harris, Ferguson east and West
precincts and College east and west precinets
Fifth. Halfmoon, Patton, Taylor, Worth
Huston, Union, Unionville boro and Benner.
Sixth. Philipsburg 1st, 20d and 3d. wards,
South Philipsburg, Rush north and south pre-
cinets, Burnside, Snow Shoe west precinct.
Seventh. Snow Shoe east precinct, Boggs
north and east precinets, Milesburg Boro, Cur-
tin, Liberty, Howard boro and township.
Eighth. Marion, Walker, north and south
precincts of Spring.
Ninth. Bellefonte north, south and west
wards ; Boggs west precinct, Spring west pre-
cinet.
The places of meeting for the Pre-
cinct delegates to meet ia each district,
have been designated by the commit’
tee as follows :
First district to meet at Millheim ;
Second at Penn Hall; Third at Centre
Hall; Fourth at State College ; Fifth
at Port Matilda ; Sixth at Philipsbarg ;
Seventh at Howard ; Eighth at Belle-
fonte, and Ninth at Bellefonte.
The attention of Democratic voters
is called to the fact that each of these
delegate districts will be entitled to
elect a delegate to attend a judicial con.
vention representing the counties of Cen-
tre and Huntingdon, for the purpose o!
making a candidate for President Judge;
also a delegate to attend a senatorial
convention, representing the counties
of Centre, Clearfield and Clinton, for
the purpose of nominating a candidate
for State Senator ; also a delegate to
attend a congressional convention re
presenting the counties of Centre,
Clearfield, Clarion, Elk and Forest.
It is recommended to the voters of
the nine several delegate districts that
they meet in caucus at their several
polling places on Saturday May 26th,
1894, at 6 o'clock P. M. and elect rep-
resentatives to a nominating caucus for
each delegate district, to meet Saturday
June 2ad, at the places hereinabove
indicated for the meeting of the Pre-
cinct delegates in the said delegate
Districts, for the purpose of nomina-
ting three candidates for each District :
one for the Judicial, Senatorial, and
Congressional conferences respectively ;
which candidate shall be voted for at
the regular primary election to be held
June 9th, 1894, at which time the var-
ious electors may vote instructions if
they see fit. The number of delegates
from each election precinct to said
nominating caucus to be the same as
they are entitled to in the County Con .
vention.
N. B. SPANGLER,
Secretary.
Eruis L. Orvis,
Chairman.
——HARRI80N’s announcement that
he is not a candidate for the nomina-
iion for the presidency in 1896 sounds
very much as if it had a string to it.
Bad For the G. 0. P.
Things are happening in these days
that are anything but gratifying to
“the grand old party,” and prominent
among them is the fraternal feeling be-
tween the North and South which is
every day becomingstronger. Sectional
antagonism has been the principal
political stock in trade of the Republi
can party, which has for years banked
on the facility with which it could ex-
cite the feelings of northern voters
against the ‘rebel brigadiers.”
But this advantage, founded on
hatred between the sections, is slipping
away when such scenes are enacted
as the one which recently occurred at
the fourth anounal reunion of confed-
erate soldiers at Birmingham, Ala-
bama, at which General MILLER, a de-
partment commander of the G. A. R.,
appeared and presented to ex-confed-
erate General GorpoN a handsome
cane cut on the field of Gettysburg, ac-
companied by a speech replete with
expressions of fraternal feeling between
northern and southern soldiers. Ge n-
eral MiLLER's present and speech were
received with tremendous cheering, and
were replied to by General GorpoN,
who dwelt particularly on the reunited
Union and Confederate veterans. A
resolution was unanimously passed
urging the G. A. R. to accept Atlanta's
invitation to hold its grand encamp-
ment there in 1895, on southern
ground,
With northern and southern soldiers
fraternizing, with brotherly accord re-
established between the two sections,
and with a Democratic tariff restoring
the prosperity of the country, the G.
O. P. will find its occupation gone.
Congressman Wilson Interviewed.
He is Sure the Bill Bearing His Name Will
Become a Law.
New ORLEANS, May 6.—Congress-
man Wilson, chairman of the ways and
means committee, who has been enjoy-
ing the hospitality of Louisiana sugar
planters for two weeks, under the guid-
ance of Congressman Andrew Price to-
day took a ride about the city to view
the points of interest. Ever sinc3 his
return from' Mexico Mr. Wilson has
manifested a marked aversion for news-
paper men and the most strenuous ef-
forts have failed to elicit an interview
from him on political questions. Yes-
terday a steamer took him and party to
the jetties and they returned this morn-
ing. A reporter was successful in get-
ting a talk with him. Mr. Wilson does
not believe that there will be another
tariff agitation after the present one is
over, for at least four years. Mr. Wilson
has nodoubt that the Wilson bill will
pass the senate and house and believes
that congress will adjourn not later than
July 1. As to the amendments, he said
he did not know what amendments have
been made in the senate, as there are
six weeks of the history of congress of
which he knows nothing. However, Mr.
Wilson will post himself thoroughly, be
said, as soon as he returns to Washing-
ton, while be is waiting for the senate
to send the bill over to the house. There
were 400 amendments to the McKinley
bill made in the senate, he said, but he
does not know how many have been
made to the Wilson bill.
The Big Miners’ Strike.
Coal Along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Seized.
Barrimore, May 8.-—The miners’
continued to spread in the George's
Creek and Cumberland region to day.
After a week’s agitation the organizers
sent to the Maryland and West Vir-
ginia districts are succeeding in getting
the meo out. Two thousand men are
now on strike, 700 having gone out to-
day. Two thousand more are expected
to quit work to-morrow. The Fair-
mont, W. Va., works will close down
to morrow. The Big Cumberland Coal
Company’s mines shut down to-day
and will remain idle until the labor trou-
bles are settled.
This company operates two of the
largest mines in West Virginia and one
in Maryland. When the trouble began
the Cumberland Company had hun-
dreds of cars loaded with coal in transit.
The Baltimore ana Ohio Railroad has
seized all this coal and refuses to sur-
renderit on the ground that without
fuel trains cannot be run, and that sus-
pension of traffic would be more serious
than the stoppage of manufacturing es-
tablishments. At every point. on the
Baltimore and Ohio lines in the Cum-
berland region the railroad men are con-
fiscating all the coal in sight. Quiet
prevails throughout the region.
The Situation in Alabama Serious.
BirMINGHAM, May 8.—At the Blue
Creek Mines to-day over 100 negroes
were put to work without molestation,
and the eviction of striking miners is in
progress. This has irritated the strik-
ers considerably, and continued threats
of violence are being made. Threaten-
ing notices bearing daggers, pistols;
coffins and cross-bones are being posted
promiscuously. The situation is serious.
The Conference Will End the Strike,
CLEVELAND, May 8.—An officer of
the Massillon Coal Operators’ Associa-
tion, who has been traveling in the
Ohio and Pennsylvania fields for sev-
eral days, said to-day that the confer-
ence to be held in this city next week
will put an end to the strike, whether
an agreement is reached or not.
Still Playing the Bluff Game,
WasHINGTON, May 9.—Colonel W.
C. P. Breckinridge arrived in the city
this afternoon. In an interview he said
there is not the suspicion of a doubt in
his mind but that he will be re-elected
fo represent the Ashland district in
Congress.
Coxey, Brown and Jones Must Walk
the Judicial Plank.
The Grounds of the District Are Chosen Ones
Upon Which No Mob Can Gather and Vent
Their Powers of Speech Pro. or Con,~The
Verdict of the Jury.
W asHINGgTON, May 8.—The trial of
Coxey, Brown and Jones, the Common-
wealers charged with trespassing on
the capitol grounds and carrying ban-
ners therein, in violation of law, ended
this afternoon. When the case open-
ed to-day, Lafe Pence, the Colorado
populist congressman, addressed the
jury. He said no one who had listened
to the evidence could expect conviction
and no one wanted a conviction except
the police officers. Pence believed it
was lawful for the Commonwealers to
assemble in the capitol grounds.
District Attorney Birney made the
closing address for the prosecution.
He said such movements as this was
what led to sedition and revolution. It
was what caused the French revolution
and there was no koowing what it
might have started here, if it had been
successful. Coxey had pleaded that he
did not know what he was commit-
ting a misdemeanor. Why then did
he have a protest prepared, which he
proposed to hand to the authorities in
case he was refused permission to
speak on the capitol steps that proved
that this was a willful violation of law,
as Coxey and his lieatenants were
aware of all the facts of the case.
Judge Miller then instructed the
jury. He said congress had the right
to pass these police regulations and
the people had no right to dictate to
congress how it should transact busi-
iness. All believed ir liberty, but un-
restricted liberty was the worst thing in
the world, and this law was simply a
restriction and it should be obeyed. At
12:59 the jury retired to consider the
verdict.
At twenty minutes past 3 o’clock
the jury sent a request to the court to
be allowed to have the written instruc-
tions of the court sent into them in the
jury room, but to this Assistant Dis-
trict Attorney Mullowny objected. The
jurors then filed out of their room, and
Judge Miller read the instructions to
them again. IL took them oalr ten
minutes afterwards to agree and at
3:40 o'clock they announced the ver-
diet. The foreman bad some difficulty
in explaining it and this led a lawyer
for the defense to object to the finding
on the ground that the clerk of the
court had misunderstood the verdict
and had wrongly recorded it. The
objection was overruled. The finding
of the jury wae that Coxey, Browne
and Jones are guilty on the first count,
which charges them with carrying
banners designed to bring the Coxey
army into prominence in the capitol
grounds.
On the second connt, of unlawfully
tramping on the grass of the capitol
grounds, Coxey and Browne are found
guilty, while the charge against Jones
was dismissed.
Mr. Lipscomb gave notice of a mo-
tion for a new trial, and asked for an
arrest of judgment. The motion will
be returnable in four days.
There was no demonstration when
the finding was announced, as Judge
Miller had cautioned the bailiffs to ar-
rest any man who acted indecorously.
At the instance of the district attorney
the bail of the defendants was renewed
in the sum of $500 for each, after
which the court adjourned.
The penalty imposed by the statute
for offenses of this kind, is “Fine or im-
prisonment or both, at the discretion
of the judge of the police court; the
fine not to exceed sixty days.”
The Knights of the Golden Eagle.
Easton, Pa. May 9.—At Able hall
last evening, acting under directions of
the supreme castle Knights ot the
Golden Eagle of Pennsylvania, a
grand temple of ladies of the Golden
Eagle was instituted by Past Supreme
Chief J. D. Barnes, of Philadelphia,
assisted by other officers of the Knights
of the Golden Eagle.
At the session of the grand castle
this morning the past chiefs’ degree
was conferred upon a number of past
chiefs by Past Chief Casselberry, of
Philadelphia. The report of the com-
mittee on grand chief's report was
adopted. The circulation of any po:
litical circular in the name of the order
was strictly forbidden by a vote after
general discussion.
At this afternoon’s session the re-
ports of committees were heard and
adopted and the committees’ expenses
allowed. A motion was made to make
the per capita tax fifteen cents and an
amendment was offered to make it thir-
teen cents. A long discussion ensued,
and when the vote was taken it show-
ed 251 for fifteen cents, against 91 for
thirteen cents. The recommendation
of the appropriation committee was
adopted as reported after an effort had
been made to reduce the sum for the
incoming grand chief trom $1,000 to
$700. The total appropriation is $12,
839.
The Commonwealers Satisfied.
W asHINGTON,May 7.—The common-
wealers suffered somewhat from the rain
storm which prevailed to-day, otherwise
the men are apparently satisfied with
their present mode of life.
Carl Browne delivered a reincarnation
sermon twice to-day ; the second time,
he claimed, wes by request. Coxey also
spoke,but on non-interest bearing bonds
and good roads.
Several ministers made application to
hold religious services in the camp but
were refused by Brown, who wanted
nothing but reincarnation preached.
One minister, however,-held services
outside the fence.
There are not more than one hundred
men left in camp of the crowd that
came over the mountains. Nearly all
the old men have become disgusted and
taken their departure. There are many
about the camp though who are willing
to remain so long as they are fed and
numbers who are willing to swell the
crowd on the same conditions. Browne
to-day asserted there were 524 men on
the rolls.
Left Ruin in Its Trial.
A Fierce Storm Sweeps Over the Country.—Thou-
sands of Dollars Worth of Property Wrecked
in the Coal Regions—A Big Coal Breaker
Blown Down.
A severe storm swept across the coun-
try Sunday and leftin its trial demolish-
ed buildings, ruined crops, forests and
orchards. Virginia, West Virginia and
Ohio suffered greatly. Following are a
few telegrams from the deluged and
wind swept aistricts :
WILKESBARRE, Pa, May 6.—A
gevere wind and rain storm accompanied
by thunder and lightning swept over
the Wyoming valley this afternoon.
The rain came down for several hours
in torrents inundating cellars and flood-
ing many of the streets in this city,
causing considerable damage.
At Forty Fort, Simpson and Wat-
kin’s massive coal breaker is reported to
be badly damaged by the terrific wind.
while the Sturmersville breaker near
Pittston was also injured to a great ex-
tent. The damage to farm houses,barns
and other buildings in the country dis-
triets is very great.
PouGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., May 6.--
About forty feet of the roof of the store-
house of the Phoenix horseshoe works
was taken off to-day by the storm , trees
were blown down and the electric light
service was disarranged.
WILKESBARRE,Pa.,May 6 —The big
coal breaker at Malthy was badly dam-
aged, as was aiso Simpson and Watkins
breaker near Wyoming. Loss will reach
$20,000.
It now seems probable that the total
loss by to-day’s storm in this county
will be over $100,000.
Iowa City, May 7.—The severest
storm known for years swept over the
city Saturday evening. In fifteen min-
utes more than $200,000 damage was
done te the buildings and contents. The
damage in the country is very great.
The storm came from the west, preceded
by dark clouds with vivid streaks ot
lightning and mutterings of thunder.
Almost total darkness prevailed just
before the storm broke. Hail stones fell
thick and fast, crushing through plate
glass windows, peppering roofs and
flooding stores and dwellings. The
cathedral glass memorial windows suf-
fered greatly.
Many store fronts were beaten in. The
St. James hotel, the Republican office
and State university building and many
other prominent buildings suffered se-
verely. Until a very short time before
the storm broke the day was beautiful
and the streets were crowded with peo-
ple. No fatalities are reported, but many
were injured by runaway teams and
pelting of hail stones, which were un-
usually large. By actual measurement
some of the stones were eight to nine
and a half inches in circumference.
Specials from points along the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific road show great
damage to buildings and merchandise
and great loss of live stock. Slate and
tin roofs on churches and other build-
ings were badly damaged.
HuxntineDoN, W. Va., May 7.—A
terrible hurricane and thunder storm
passed over this section last evening,
doing considerable damage. At Central
City, two miles west of here, the Ohio
River railroad shops and round house
were completely demolished, with a
loss of $30,000. H. J. Burkhart, the
superintendent, was buried beneath the
debris, but was extricated and will
probably recover. Other employes re-
‘ceived slight injuries. Many other
‘buildings in town were demolished.
The Coxey Army.
‘WasHINGTON, May u.—The district
commissioners spent several hours to
day considering the report of the health
department which pronounced the Coxey
camp a menance to the health authority,
and commended in the strongest lan-
guage that it be vacated, but the dis-
trict attorney was unable to satisfy the
commissioners of their power to eject
the army, after the issuance of a permit
to occupy it, and therefore no action
was taken. It is likely a warrant will
be sworn out charging Coxey with
maintaining a nuisance. Coxey is get-
ting ready to meet such a proceeding.
He had a number of men at work im-
proving the ground this morning, but
illness in the army is steadily increas-
ing. Thirteen men are already in local
hospitals and many in the camp are suf-
fering from various complaints.
Late this afternoon Coxey was served
with a notice to comply with the health:
regulations in regard to his camp with-
in torty-eight hours, otherwise he will
be prosecuted under a statute which
imposes a fine of from $5 to $25 for
each offence.
Ex-Treasurer Archer Pardoned.
BALTIMORE, May 9.—Ex-State Treas-
urer Stevenson Archer was pardoned
out of the state penitentiary this morn-
ing. He bad been confined there since
July, 1890, under a five year sentence
for robbing the state treasury of the
sum of $183,000 Archer attempted to
commit suicide at his home in Hartford
county when his defalcation was made
public. His downfall was one of the
most sensational occurrences in the his-
tory of the state.
confines of the state of Maryland was
more popular nor trusted further. He
had been a political leader for years and
held many high offices, being chairman
of the Democratic state central commit-
tee when proven a defaulter.
Won by Philadelphia.
Easton, Pa., May 8.—In the com-
petitive drill in Center Square this af-
_ternoon for prizes offered by the local
| Knights of the Golden Eagle to the vis-
{ iting knights, the first exercise was won
i by the West Philadelphia commandery.
The second prize was won by St. Mary's
! commandery, of Allentown. To the
| East Bangor castle was awarded the
, prize for the largest number, and to the
{ first regiment, Philadelphia, the prize
for the finest appearance.
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READING, Pa., May 9.—The Pennsyl-
vania Junior United American Me-
' chanics this afternoon applied to the
"court for an injunction to oust A. J.
An Unnaturalized Director.
| board of this city, who has never been
naturalized.
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No man within the |
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Breckinridge’'s Death Knell,
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His Political Aspirations Will never Be Realiz-
ed, According to the Courier Journal i
LouvisvitLe, Ky., May 6.—Tle
Courier-Journal, which has hitherto
maintained a position of strict neutral
ity regarding the case of Congressman
Breckinridge since the beginning of
the Pollard ecene, breaks silence in an
editorial today declaring that Mr.
Breckinridge should be beaten for re-
nomination. The paper says :
“The situation in the Ashland dis.
trict, unfortunage as it is junprecedent-
ed, makes it imperative that every
journal which has the good of the
party at heart, which cherishes the
honor of the state and which appre-
ciates its obligations to society, shall
protest with all its power against the
re-election of Colonel Breckinridge.
We do not underrate what he has done
for his party and the cause ot tariff re-
torm in the past. But even it his
ability for fature usefulness were not
destroyed by the scandal which has
darkened his name, the party could
vot afford to accept his services at the
price it would be forced to pay. It is
idle to attempt to obscure the issue
with sophistical distinction between
Colonel Breckioridge's public and pri-
vate life. The case bas gone far- be-
yond the possibility of that. The
question simply is, do the people of
Kentucky propose to send as a repre
sentative to congress the man whom
Colouel Breckinridge confessed himself
to be in his testimony betore a Wash-
ington jury ? It is a question which
transcends the limits ot the Ashland
district and of Kentucky itself. Itisa
question in which the people of the
entire nation are deeply interested.
That part of his speech yesterday de:
voted to the scandal in which he has
figured were better passed over in pity
It is a strange exhibition of marvellous
etfrontery, wretched taste and mentally
and morally oblique casuistry.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——Two Madisonburg girls went
fishing last week, but had poor luck in
the stream. They left the fish go and
went to visit friends near by and for-
getting to take the bait off their hooks
when they entered the house they came
out later to find that they had each
caught a chicken.
——The rumor that the Beech Creek
railroad company intended moving its
general office from Philipsburg back to
Jersey Shore is “blank nonsense’ inthe
language of G. M. Case, Ass’t. Gen.
Pass. agent. He says ‘it is acknowledged
by all Beech Creek officials that the busi-
ness cannot be handled with equal
facility from any other point on the line
and removal to Jersey Shore has not
been, nor will it be contemplated.” Mr.
Case has lately been appointed general
freight and passenger agent of the new
Altoona and Philipsburg connecting
railroad.
——John Moyer, a son of J. K-
Moyer, of Centre Mills, with two sisters
and Mr. John Moyer, of Boalsburg,
droye in a carriage from that place to
Rebersburg, last Sunday, to attend
church. They were driving two colts
and when returning a heavy storm
came up and they started homeward
at a rapid gait. The bit broke on
one of the bridles and the team start-
ed to run away. The girls both jump
ed, the one with a little sister in her
arms, and in trying tosave the child
she fell and injured herself badly. She
was unconscious for quite a while, but
her recovery is hopei for now. The
other occupants of the carriage escaped
with slight injuries.
AN ORDER FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
—The popularity, reliability and super-
ior mechanical facilities of the power
hammer manufactured by the Jenkins
& Lingle company of this place is be.
coming more wide-spread every cay
All through the United States and in.
many foreign countries can be hesrd the
metallic trip-trip-trip of the power
hammer and the burnished builder’s
plate reveals the fact that it is the pro-
duct of a Bellefonte establishment.
The latest order which the company
has received came yesterday morning
from the United States Government
works at Frankford, Phila. It calls for
a medium seized hammer to be deliver-
ed as soon as possible. The order is a
very flattering testimonial to the Belle-
fonte machinists, as it was the result of a
thorough investigation of the merits of
all the known power hammers.
Pine Grove Mentions.
M. A. Fury is this week visiting her
Bellefonte friends’and will likely return
with a stunning new bonnet.
This week our friend Jesse Britton Pip-
er is smiling all over his face—it is a girl
and he has already interviewed the mer-
chants to see if they would sell him dress
goods at wholesale instead of retail for
little Belle and her baby sister.
After spending a week most pleasantly
at the home of her childhood, Mrs. B. F.
Stover who was accompanied by her
daughter, Miss Lettie, returned to their
home in Bellefonte with the expectation
that their next coming to Pine Grove
would be by rail, we hope their prophecy
! will prove true.
A Jarge number of Penns Valley I. 0. O.
F. Lodge members of this place will
| participate in the Odd ¥ellows parade at
i Altoona on the 15th inst, where the grand
{ lodge will be in session during the 15-16-
1 17th. This will be one of the largest gath.
" erings of the brotherhood in the state.
Last Suuday one of the severest wind
storms accompanied by rain swept over
this section, unroofing buildings, uproot.
ing trees and scattering fences.
The
| church goers were all baptised in a
t drenching manner tor the rain fell in tor-
i rents.
One evening last week the Ladies Mite
society assembled at the house of E. C.
Fry, where old and young received a roy-
al welcome. Refreshments were served
unsparingly and the usual amount of
back stitching was done by the boys who
-expected to win the prize, which was won
by Jacob Neidi-h as the best seamster—
Our ticket was miscarried or the result
would have been very different.
Our friend Aaron Tressler is carrying
his left hand in a sling and is receiving
the daily attention of Dr, Glenn undel
whose treatment he is slowly improving.
Ten days ago Aaron’s hand came in con-
tact with a circular saw about midway
between the thumb and wrist, more than
-one Lalf of the tissues of the hand were
cut and the thumb almost severed
The cut was so serious that it will be
months before he will be able to work
and he will likely remain at C. B. McCor-
mick’s where the accident happened.
The reaper of death again visited our
midst and removed from us all tnat was
mortal of Miss Jane Gates on the 8th inst
at her home near Gatesburg known as the
the Solomon Gates homestead, where she
spent all her life. After the death of her
father back in the twenties, she and her
sister Anne lived together until death
called Anna two years ago. After that
time Jane resided with the farmer Isaac
Gates whose family cared for her most
tenderly in the time of her affliction. Her
death was caused by pulmonary
trouble which was almost as hereditary
as the name, in the family, Thus the last
of the numerons family of Solomon
Gates has been laid to rest in the family
plot at Gatesburg cemetery. The inter-
ment took place on the 10th inst., Rev. C.
T. Aikens officiating. She was a life long
member of the Latheran church.
This week brings the expiration of
Squire Archey’s ‘position as Justice of
the Peace which he held first by Govern-
or Beaver’s appointment, and second by
election. During his term he has proven
himself a faithful and thoroughly efficient
official. He retires with the best wishes
of all as he did not seek a remuneration,
His Honor Judge Furst paid him a com-
pliment by saying, that if all Centre
counties Justices meeted out the Law as
Squire Archey of Fergusen did there
would be little use for quarter sessions.
The newly commissioned justice is
Jacob Kellar whom the people gave their
support at the late electionand will here.
afterretail justice to all we hope with
candor and discretion. That his term of
office will be as spotless as that of his pre-
decessor is not doubted.
This week the Coxey movement is lost
sight of in the excitement of favorable
rail-road news. The officials announce
that as the right of way has been secured,
work would be begun in a very short
time. Some of our business men are
arousing from their lethargy and there is
every reason to believe that this will
make one of the most prosperous rail-road
points in the state, With this view new
and heretofore unthought of industries
are being developed and brought to the
fore. P. F. Bottorf has opened and is opera-
ting a quarry of excellent stone for huild-
ing and paving purposes, any thickness,
length and breadth can be had ; the pave-
ments that have already been laid and
that add so much to the appearance
of the town are an excellent advertise-
ment for the stone. J. G. Hess our enter-
prising groceryman is prospecting on
the mountain side just below the town for
bituminous coal which experts say and
are confident is likely to be found in this
distriet, in rich veins.
An Hour on the Famous Board-Walk.
Come reader, let us take a stroll, it is a fine
afternoon, the air is bracing, and the old
ocean is roaring in its usual cadence.
There are large numbers of people on the
promenade. Some are seeking pleasure, oth-
ers are seeking health, and others are seek-
ing something because they see everyone else
seeking. We meet mothers taking their child-
ren for an airing and we sometimes meet a
nurse carrying a baby and the baby’s mother
carrying a dog; we meet sweet-faced old
ladies, —ladies who have grown old gracefully,
and sometimes we meet an old lady who is apt +
to excite pity, she tries still to be young by
combing her silver locks down over her aged
forehead in straight bangs.
Let us go in here where all these phono-
graphs are kept. Now drop a nickel in the
slot, push this lever in, place the cup to your
ear and listen to strains of sweet music, by
one of the masters, while th: ose about you are
protesting that they hear nothing.
Now we will go to the summit of Pikes
Peak. (an immense arrangement placed on
trestles) we will take seats in this sleigh-box
on wheels. Now the cable is moving and up
we go. It isa steep ascent, but it will be a
rough descent. Now get ready, set your teeth
hard, hold your hat on with one hand and
grasp that iron rod with the other. Now down
we go whi-sh sh sh- the first curve is passed—
brer-wi-sh sh- the second curve is passed—er-
r-eesh-sh-sh- another curve passed, now
comes the turn—br-r-m-we-ish-sh—here we
ara ready to alight, at the starting place. And
we do alight with thankful hearts ; and gather
our scattered.senses our unstrung nerves and
the scattered portions of our make-up
together and vow if we are forgiven this time
we will never do it again.
Let us now enter the Crystal Maize, a build-
ing thirty eight by forty two feet, in which
mirrors have been placed in such bpumbers—
built into the partitions in fact—that one is
utterly bewildered. If Robert Burns bad seen
this it is hardly probable that he would have
written that little poem about seeing ourselves
as others see us. He wou!d have grown tired
of seeing himself as others saw him. As we
enter, there are groups of people, who look
just like us, standing all around us. Oh ;
world of mimicry. If we smile, they look just
as amused at us as we do at them, if we walk
they walk, and at last we move on through
this mysterious crowd until we come to a long,
mystic hallway where we can see cne hun-
dred and two groups of ourselves all going
through the same performances. Other peo-
ple witn their many reflections come upon the
scene. And all get equally bewildered. In
common bewilderment all soon learn to hold
their hands before them t» avoid running into
their own reflections or somebody else, and
all are laughing.
We seem to be in a world of bewilderment,
a mocking world, a laughing world ; we act
like insane creatures. In a wild eftort to
make my escape from the mystic scene, I run
into a fat man and have to pause to decide
whether that is my reflection or some one
else. M. V. Tuomas.