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Bellefonte, Pa., May 25, 1894.
Epitor
P. GRAY MEEK,
The Great Flood.
Pennsylvania has been inundated
again by the waters ot her rivers and
smaller streams. Seventy-two hours
of pouring rain were too much for the
natural water-ways, and the mighty
torrents that swept down from the
mountain regions left a track of devas-
tation through the valleys, green with
promising crops.
A flood is not an unusual thing in
this State, but one like that from
which she is just now drying out does
not happen often and from the ines-
timable pecuniary = loss following, it
would seem the less frequent the bet-
ter.
In 1889 Pennsylvania suffered a del-
uge, the horrors of which will be hand-
ed down to our posterity as almost in-
describable. The breaking of a pri-
vate dam near Johnstown ran the fa.
talities up to the thousand mark, but
at other points the destruction was ma-
terial only to property. This last
flood, coming within fifteen days of the
fifth anniversary of that catastrophe,
has fallen little short of it in its prop-
erty destruction but thank God the
numberof lives lost is not to be com-
pared with the other.
The rainseems to have been general.
The valleys of the Schuylkill, Cone-
maugb, Juniata and the Susquehanna
with its North and West branches, suf-
fering from the raging waters. Mil-
lions of dollars worth of lumber, fen-
ces, buildings, and every movable ob:
ject in its course are now known to
their owners as nothing but loss.
Growing crops have been washed from
the fields, the soil carried away and in
this manner untold losses have occur-
red in the farming communities. Yet
withal, the people will recover and go
to work doing just the same thing they
did after the flood of 1889, never think-
ing of the possibility of the recurrence
of the disaster of Sunday.
The man who builds on the sand
need have little hope of seeing his
property stand.
His Claim as a Businessman.
Among the Republican candidates
for Congress in the Lebanon district is
Mr. RoBert H. CoLEMAN, whose claim
is being pushed on the ground of his
being a businessman. He has been
long known as the head of, the great
CoLEMAN estate, valued at millions on
account of its vast iron ore possessions
and the revenue derived from them.
But the management of Mr. CoLEMAN
has not been such as would commend
him as a great business manager, for
be hasgreatly involved the estate which
ordinary business ability should have
kept intact. If he should go to Con-
gress would he be able to do the pub-
lic business better than he has done his
own? ;
Republican statesmen lay greatstress
upon their business capacily, and it is
the Republican theory that this should
be a businessmens’ government. Mr.
CoLeMAN will no doubt be a candidate
for Congress on that principle. Mc-
KiNLEY'S claim to statesmanship was
based on his business capacity, and on
that ground he assumed the ability to
frame the fiscal system of the country,
and yet he could not keep himself from
becoming a bankrupt in his {private
business, Secretary Foster, who
managed the Treasury in Harrison's
administration was a business man of
the same kind and got under the ham-
mer of the sheriff. Mr. CoLemaN may
think he ought to go to Congress as a
businessman, yet there is reason to
doubt the business capacity of Repub-
lican statesmen.
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They Will See Their Folly.
The districticomposed of the counties
* of Northumberland, Montour, Colum-
bia and Sullivan is one of the strong
Democratic congressional districts of
the State, but thereis an impression
among the Republicans of the district
that they are going to carry it at the
next election on account of the great
revolution which they imagine has tak-
en place in the minds of the people on
the tariff question. Speaking of this
hallucination, the Northumberland
County Democrat says: “After the
election next November the Republi-
cans who wanted to run for Congress in
this district will eay, “what fools we
were,” and the one who gets the nomi-
nation will say, “I was the biggest fool
of the lot.”
Such an acknowledgement of folly
will not be confined to that district.
* Great expectations are being based on |
the continuance of business depression
by Republican obstruction in Congress,
it being the Republican calculation to
carry the elections in consequence of
the distress which they have created
and kept up by their congressional
tactics; but it is a desperate game
which is more likely to injure than to
benefit them in popular opinion.
In the first pinch of the hard times
the voters were considerably unsettled
in their views as to what caused it, and
many of them struck out wildly and
blindly at the ballot box, but public
gentiment is now pretty well settled as
to where the ‘calamity’ came from,
and the people are becoming every
day more disgusted with the party that
is doing all it can in Congress to con-
tinue the business distress for the effect
it may have on the election. That the
effect will be quite different from what
Republican politicians are calculating
it will be, has already been shown by
the result of a recent election in a con-
gressional district in Ohio, where the
issue was directly on the tarifi ae now
pending in Congress, the Democrats
more than maintaining their party vote
and wiping out the “calamity” gain
made by the Republicans at the last
State election.
After the election next November
aspiring Republicans who were itching
to run for Congress in Democratic dis-
tricts will see what fools they were,
and the folly will be particularly ap-
parent to those who were unfortunate
enough to be nominated.
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Individual Communion Cups.
A remarkable innovatien is being
made in one of the most sacred
ordinances of the Christian church
by the introduction of a new
method of administering the Lord’s
Supper. The innovation consisis
in having an individual cup for
each communicant. It would appear
that the old method of a general cup is
condemned by the fastidious innova-
tors on the ground of uncleanliness,
and the charge is also brought against
it that it is liable to impart infectious
disease.
This new way of administering the
sacrament has been adopted by two
churches in Rochester, New York, and
is attracting considerable attention and
exciting much comment, the congrega-
tions that have adopted it no doubt
balieving that they have made a decid-
ed improvement on the simple and
common way of communions institu-
ted and practiced by the great Master
of Christianity.
Rev. CuarLes Forages, of Rochester,
is the new light on this subject. The
cups he has provided for the congrega-
tion are described as of silver, with
gold lining, bell shaped, with flat bot-
tom, each holding a teaspoonful.
They are handled in holders of oak,
silver tipped, with a convenient hand-
dle, each holder containing forty or
fifty of them. This arrangement looks
very snug, cleanly, handy and attrac-
tive, but it is not likely to be approved
by those who do not believe there can
be an improvement upon the method
hallowed by the example of the Savior.
Dr. Fores is backed by a Prc-
fessor of the Rochester University, who
has given it as his opinion that}{*‘the
individual communioe chalice should
be adopted as a preventative of disease
and.as a public object lesson of cleanli-
ness.” [tis also urged by the com-
munion innovators thatimany fastid-
ious persons are kept from the sacra-
ment on account of the urcleanliness
of a common cup and are thereby de-
prived of the sacramental benefits.
Surely the twelve who sat around the
first communion table were not so
fastidious, and had at heart no other
object lesson than that of spiritual
devotion.
— Irvin Barnhart, of near Curtin’s
works, recently caught a ten pound carp
in Bald Eagle creek.
A Great Deluge in the State,
The Flood Gates of Heaven Open and Drench
the Country.—A Break in Kittanning Dam—
The Waters Pour Down the Valley and Threat.
en to Wipe Out Hollidaysburg— The Residents
Were Warned.— Williamsport Under Water.—
The Susquehanna is Roaring, Booms Break,
and Reports are Current of Lives Lost in the
Lumber District.—The Schuylkill Waters Rise.
Not since the great storm of the
last days of May 1889 when all the
rivers in the state overflowed their
banks, and the great Johnstown flocd
occurred and millions of dollars worth
of damage was done, has there been a
storm that equaled the one which swept
over Pennsylvania during last Friday,
Saturday and Sunday.
The Schuylkill, Susquehanna and
Juniata rivers and their tributaries
were so swollen that they could not
contain themselves and from every
hand comes reports of washed out
farms, ruined crops, inundated towns,
merchandise destroyed, bridges swept
away and families homeless,
Very little, if any loss of life has oc-
curred but the amount of damage done
cannot be estimated at this time,
Reports from the euftering distrigts’
are meagre but give some idea of the
extent of the damage.
The crops on the farms along: the
smaller rivers are almost all destroyed
and this alone will be a great lose.
Williamsport, May 20.—This has
been the most exciting day in the his-
tory of Williawsport, and the stirring
events that banished Sunday from the
thoughts of all will not be effaced for
years to come. A half hour before
the time for the church bells to sum-
mon the worshippers all were alarmed
by the ringing of bells to warn the
populace of impending disaster from
flood.
The constant downpour of rain re-
minded all of the conditions that pre-
ceeded the memorable overflow of June
1, 1889, and long before the hour of
noon thousands of people, aided by
bundreds of teams and vehicles of
every conceivable shape from a four
horse dray to a push cart, were en-
gaged in removing goods to places of
safety. .
Hundreds of tons of merchandise
were carried from the first floors of
stores to the second and third stories,
and mills and manufacturing establigh-
ments prepared for possible disaster by
securing the contents of their plants to
the best advantage.
WILLIAMSPORT’S GREAT LOSS.
WiLLiaMsPorT, Pa., May 21.—The
great boom here broke early this morn-
ing and sixty million feet of logs were
swept away. The Susquehanna river
has risen to thirty-three feet and there
is a six foot flood through many of the
streets of the city. The Pennsylvania
railroad bridge over the river is stand-
ing the pressure solidly. But the city
bridges have been badly damaged.
Four spans of the Market street bridge
have been washed away and three of
the four spans of the Maynard street
bridge have gone. Both are iron
structures and the pecuniary loss will
be heavy. No lives have been lost
here. A number of small boats were
capsized today, but all of the occu-
pants, many of whom were endeavor-
ing to save logs and property, were res-
cued.
The water is running in on Packer
street close to Second, and is also on
Susquehanna avenue. The dispatch
also stated that the first span of the
Sunbury bridge is loaded down with
cars, and arrangements are made to
load both bridges if necessary. A dis-
patch from Catawissa, on the west
branch of the Susquehanna, says:
“The water is fifteen feet high and still
rising and it isstill raining. At River-
side (Danville) the water is eighteen
feet high. The water at the west end
of the Sunbury yard is within six inch-
es of the flood of 1889 and still rising,
and the bank at Walnuton is washed
close tothe track. The fifth span of
the Northumberland wagon bridge has
just gone out at 10.40.”
THE SCHUYLKILL RIVER ON THE RAM-
PAGE. MANY SCHOONERS DAMAGED.
PrivaApELPHIA, May 21.—The flood
that has swept down the Schuylkill
river all to-day has been gathering
strength and volume with each hour
and to-night the river is raging like a
mountain torrent. Above the dam at
the city water works the river is wide
and it had room to spread over the
grass lands and driveways of Fair-
confined principally to washouts on
the drives. Below the dam the river
is confined to a channel about half the
width of above by lines of wharves on
either bank. At this port the waters
overflowed the wharves and backed up
into the streets, and houses two squares
from the banks. The water is three
feet deep over the tracks of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad and two feet
of water covers the ground floor of the
company’s station at Twenty-third and
Chestnut streets. There is six feet of
water in the Baltimore and Ohio tun-
nel, between Arch and Spring Garden
streets, and all travel south has been
interrupted over the road since noon
to-day. Above South street bridge a
fleet of schooners were moored at the
wharves and one of them was torn
from its moorings this afternoon by the
fierce current and it swept down upon
another schooner and within a few
minutes six schooners and a canal
boat was whirling down the river in a
tangled mass toward the bridge. The
bridge tender saw the coming danger
and threw the draw in the hope that
the six vessels would pass through with
a current, the floating mass, however,
struck an abutment of the bridge and
jammed one against the other and
came to a stop. On the Delaware riv-
er front the water overflowed the
wharves into Delaware avenue and
considerable freight that had not been
removed was ruined.
A CITY IN DARKNESS.
ALLENTOWN, May 21.—Allentown
and the surrounding country is experi-
encing one of the heaviest storms in
the memory of the generation. The
city has been in darkness to-night, the
water filling the electric light station
basement. The trolley cars to-day
were run with great difficulty and the
car house was flooded. The greatest
damage was at Hokendaqua, where a
new bridge, costing $40,000 and al-
most ready for use, was moved out of
plumb and probably damaged. It is
now raining harder than ever with no
signs of abating and the waters are
still rising rapidly.
JOHNSTOWN AGAIN FLOODED.
JonNsTrowN Pa., May 21.—At 3
o’clock this morning this city was visit
ed by the highest water since the big
flood on May 31, 1889. For several
days rain has been falling continually,
Yesterday morning Stony creek
reached a height of twelve feet and be-
gan to recede. It was then thought
that all danger was past. Last eve
ning, however, a heavy rain swept the
Conemaugh valley between Johnstown
and Altoona, and by 10 o'clock the
Conemaugh river was rising rapidly,
To make matters worse ; there was a
cloud burst near Ebensburg and this
mass of water poured down'the Cone-
maugh valley and by midnight the
river was a torrent. By 2 o'clock this |
morning the Conemaugh was over its
banks.
The alarm was sounded by fire whis-
tles and bells of the city and almost all |
of the people who live in the neighbor- |
hood of the Conemaugh river left their
mount park and the damage there is.
houses and took shelter on higher
ground. The water continued to rise
rapidly and by 3 o'clock had reached
its highest point. In many places it
was from six to eight feet over the
banks. It is now receding rapidly.
All danger is past. The loss by the
flood is variously estimated at from
$75,000 to $150,000. The Pennsylva-
nia railroad, whose tracks follow the
river for twenty-five miles above this
city, is perhaps the heaviest loser, and
its loss is placed at $50,000.
At Conemaugh the roundhouse
seemed to be about destroyed, and all
the engines were removed to a place of
safety. The foundation was under-
mined but the building stood. The over-
head bridge at Conemaugh, erected by
the Pennsylvania Railroad company
years ago, was badly damaged and a
number of houses were flooded, but
none washed away. A temporary
bridge across the river at this point
was carried off down the river and
completely demolished. The greatest
damage to houses in Johnstown was
done in the very heart of the city with-
in a stone’s throw of the Pennsylva-
nia station. A store owned by Teffy
George, at the north end of the Lin-
coln bridge, was completely swept
away with all its contents. A frame
building in the rear of the Grand Cen-
tral botel, owned by Emanuel Jones,
was also swept away, as well as the
Startler residence.
On the opposite bank of the river the
corner of the Grand Central hotel, a
large brick structure was knocked out
by floating debris, but the building did
not fall. The large offices of the Cam-
bria Iron company and the Gautier
steel department and the store of the
Penn. Traffic company were submerged
to a depth of four feet and a large
amount of books and valuable papers
were badly damaged.
HunTiNGDON, Pa., May 20.—In this
place the water flooded the lower
streets driving the people from their
homes, and in the lower farming dis
trict whole families are imprisoned in
their homes, unable to be reached ow-
ing to the turbulance of the streams,
Three new country bridges spanning
the Juniata and Raystown branch
have been swept away. The gas com-
pany plant here 18 submerged and the
lower floors of many business houses
flooded.
Mrs. Jacob Miller was drowned at
Saxton while trying to save some prog-
erty.
Additional flood news is to the effect
that the storm was general in the State
and every section has shared in the
great disaster. At Williamsport mil-
lions of dollars worth of uncut lumber
were swept away. There were $150,
000,000 ft. of lumber in the Williams-
port boom when 1t was swept away
and 10,000,000 more in the boom at
Linden, many of the big mill firms of
that city that had hardly recovered
from the great flood of 1889 will find
this second disaster a grave blow to
their business. Along the course of
the West Branch of the Susquehanna
devastated farm lands tell the tale of
the raging waters. The newly planted
crops have been washed away and the
Joss io the farmers is almost inestima-
e.
In the Juniata and Conemaugh val-
leys the same wreck and ruin is to be
seen, fences washed away, trees up-
rooted and the rich soil from thous-
ands of acres, of once fertile land, all
gone now.
SCARED FROM THEIR BEDS IN HOLLIDAYS-
BURG.
HorLipaYeBURG, May 21.—The Ju-
niata river again rose rapidly last (Sun-
day) evening, and in a short time was
a8 high as on the preceeding evening.
By 10 o'clock Allegheny street in
Gaysport was again covered with
water. About 8.30 there was a cloud
burst a short distance west of Gaysport,
and in a few minutes that portion of
the town known as “Canada” was
flooded with water to the depth of sev-
eral feet, which flowed down the streets
and through the yards covering the
fences and surging against the houses
with great force. The inhabitants
were greatly frightened, and quite a
number fled to higher ground for safety.
The water soon subsided, but remained
to the depth of two feet in the lower
yards. About 12 o'clock the blowing
of an engine whistle aroused the peo-
ple of the twin boroughs and the ru-
mor was spread that the Kittanning
reservoir had bursted and that Gays-
port would soon be enveloped in the
deluge. The inhabitants fled precipi-
tately from their houses, many of
them rushing through the streets in
their night robes, and for a time the
greatest confusion prevailed. Everybody
rushed for higher ground, Many of
them soon returned to their homes,
however, as the deluge did not come,
and it was learned that the dam had
not broken. Others stayed * with
friends and relatives in Hollidaysburg
over night and quite a number re-
mained on the adjacent hills until day-
light, being afraid to return to their
homes.
The high water moved one of the
cottages at Reese station from its
foundation and landed it in a field
some distance below,
A LITTLE HERO AND HIS SISTER PERISH.
Nanticoke, Pa., May 21.—Michael
and Mary Kosokoski, aged 10 and 8
years, respectively, were drowned in a
creek near their home. Usually, the
water in the creek is about two feet
deep, but to-day it was about five feet
aod running very rapidly. Brother
and sister were playing on the bank
when they were caught in the current
and swept out into the creek. The
little boy might have saved himself,
but he died trying to rescue his sister.
THE DELUGE CUTS OFF RENOVO.
Renovo, Pa., May 21.—There have
been several landslides above and be-
low this place along the line of the
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. No
mail has arrived from the East since
Saturday morning, and all communi:
cation from the West is cut off,
The lower parl of the town is suk-
merged, and many families are mov-
ing their effects into empty cars.
There has been great damage done to
mills and bridges throughout the
county. The Susquehanna river to-
night is as high as it was at the disas-
trous flood in 1889.
READING UNDER THE FLOOD,
Reading, Pa., May 21.—Not since
1889 has there been a flood to equal
the one that is now sweeping down the
Schuylkill Valley. At 8 o'clock this
evening the river is 17 feet high, and
rising at the rate of 8 inches an hour.
The entire lower portion of the city is
inundated, and within the next two
hours, if the present state of affairs
continue, the gas works will be flooded.
All the manufacturing establishments
along the river front have their floors
submerged.
Hundreds of men are employed at
the Readiog Hardware Works, Orr,
Painter & Co., stove works, Mt. Penn
Hardware Works, Reading Terra Cot-
ta Works, Alexander Hat Factory and
other establishments moving goods be-
yond the reach of the water. Traffic
has been suspended on the Pennsylva-
nia Schuylkill Valley, Wilmington
and Northern and Reading and South-
western Railroads. The tracks are
covered with several feet of water.
The Barnum & Bailey circus was load-
ed on the cars to-day, but cannot leave
the city for Sunbury, where it is
booked to appear to-morrow. There
are washouts between here and Tama.
ua.
The Philadelphia express, due in
Reading at 5.40 p. m., was 40 minutes
late arriving here. Near Spring Mill
the train ran through 3 feet of water.
Engineer Reilly thought that no more
trains could get through to-night, as it
will be impossible to pass through
with safety. !
A passenger, who came through
from Mahanoy City via Pottsville, says
that the flood north of Broad Moun-
tain is terrible, snd that the damage to
the collieries will be great. The Lit-
tle Schuylkill branch between Port
Clinton and Tamaqua is in bad shape,
there being no less than three wash-
outs, and it will be impossible to re
pair the damage until the flood sub-
sides. There is two and a balf feet of
water in the Port Clinton tunnel of the
Philadelphia and Reading road. The
are flooded to the depth of three feet,
and passenger and freight traffic has
been abandoned for the present. The
water is now over the tracks in tront
of the Pennsylvania Station at the
foot of Penn street, this city.
LATER FLOOD NEWS.
WiLLIAMsPORT, Pa., May 22, —Wil-
liamsport to-day emerged from its en-
forced isolation and began to calculate
the damage done by its immersion by
the flood.
A careful estimate of the financial
loss for Williamsport and Lycoming
county, at this time is $10,000,000.
This city sustained its greatest loss in
the wreck of the Susquehanna boom and
the loss of 175,000,000 feet of logs held
in it. At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon
the boom burst and the logs went float-
ing down the river. ‘These logs in their
rough condition were worth on an aver-
age of $10 per thousand feet. Manu-
factured here, they would have been
worth twice that sum. In consequence
the loss to the lumbermen alone will
foot up over $3,000,000. Added to this
the loss occasioned by wrecked bridges,
the stock cf merchants, household ef-
fects, damage to crops, etc., will easily
bring the damage up to $10,000,000.
By reason of the high water the plants
of the two electric light companies and
the gas company were drowned out yes-
terday and the city was in total dark-
ness. The lower portion of the city is
without water by reason of the mains of
the city works having broken. The
lower or business portion of the city
presents a sad spectacle. The main
streets are full of logs,board walks, wreck-
age and debris of all descriptions.
No newspapers were issued from any
of the offices here yesterday,as the plants
of all were drowned out.
The total losses here, as estimated by
conservative men, are $3,000,000. This
includes $1,500,000 on logs, $250,000 on
sawed lumber, and the balance on prop-
erty throughout the city. The boom
held 170,000,000 feet of logs. All are
gone, but the boom justified the con-
fident expectations of every one and
held out to the last moment. There
was some difficulty with packing on
Sunday and many logs escaped by
smearing out. On Monday morning at
about 1:30 o’clock many logs went out
by smearing, but the boom proper and
its valuable contents did not break until
yesterday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. At
that time not less than 75,000,000 feet
of logs that were packed mountain high
in the lower boom went out almost as
one log. They stuck together and pass-
ed on down through the city. It wasa
magnificent sight, and those who saw it
never expect to see its like again. What
was left of the Maynard street bridge at
one side at that time was swept away
by the logs. The iron spans rattled
down on the pile of logs and rested
there. All came down on the river
and struck what was left of the Mar-
ket street bridge, taking it along. The
water at that time was thirty-one feet.
About 25 per cent. of the logs, with
the experience of 1889 to estimate
from, will be recovered if they are
captured down the river.
There was no loss of life in the city,
although there were many miraculous
escapes. Williamsport is a city of mud
and there are thousands at work clean- |
ing the smeared premises. Mayor El-
liot has called a public meeting for to-
morrow to take action looking to the
care of the homeless. Probably fifty
houses along the river front were render-
ed uninhabitable, and the families are
being cared for by the more fortunate.
It is estimated that the homes of 10,000
people were invaded by the water and
are in such a damp and unhealthy con-
dition as to make them undescribable.
Those who lived above the flood line are
not allowing the unfortunate to suffer.
There is an’ ample supply of provisions
and the city is not in want.
Railroad traffic is resuming from the
east and west, and within two days
traffic wiil be almost complete. The
stricken inhabitants are as cheerful as
possible under the circumstances and go
| to bed to-night without anxiety for the
first time in seventy-two hours,
Pennsylvania tracks above Reading
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
Decoration Day EvENING.—Every-
body in Bellefonte is invited to a splen-
did concert in the opera house. The
Bellefonte band, assisted by Meyer's
orchestra, and some of the very best
vocalists in Centre county, will unite in
giving an excellent concert. The fall
band of 20 pieces will render a medley
‘Plantation Echo’s” Herman’s Over-
ture “La Diadem’” and the ¢‘Idalia
waltzes” all of which are extra good.
The orchestra will give the “Anvil
chorus’ from Verdi’s opera “Il Trova-
tore’’, with real anvils. Also, by re-
quest, the discriptive piece, ‘Life on
the Mississippi,” with its steamboat
whistles, bells, steam calliope, boat race,
and explosion. Some delightful songs
will be rendered by Prof, Lowell Mey-
er,Mr. Lee B. Woodcock,and Mr. Philip
Waddle. These songs are with orches-
tra accompaniment, and are very fine.
A concert polka, for the cornet, compos-
ed for this occasion by Prof. W. T-
Meyer, will be played by Mr. Will
Culveyhouse, late of the Germania band
of Phila. Prof. Doolittle’s phonograph
will puzzle everyone, and ‘Musical
Mopes, or the Musician’s Revenge’’ is
worth more than the price of ad-
mission.
The band boys are trying to raise
enough to equip themselves with new
uniforms, and everybody ought to en-
courage them. The admission to the
concert is only 25 cents. No extra
charges for reserved seats, which you can
get at Parrish’s. Go, everybody, pack
the house, and show the boys that their
labors are not unappreciated.
Tue LicarNiNe KiLnep Him, A
singular fatality occurred near Tussey-
ville during a thunder storm last Friday.
Daniel F. Facringer and a son of Joseph
Lee were working in a field near the
former’s home, and when the storm came
up they started for the house. On
reaching the house Mr. Farringer sat
down on a wood box behind the stoye
and was sitting there when a bolt of
lightning struck the house. The elec-
tric current ran’ down the chimney snd
striking Mr. Farringer killed him in-
stantly. It stunned the Lee boy and
then running on the floor it struck one
of the children, knocking it under the
stove and tearing a heel off one of its
shoes.
Deceased was about forty years of
age and leaves a widow with several
children to support.
The young man and the child will re-
cover, though both were unconscious for
some time.
The above account was furnished us
as given by the physician who was sum-
moned after the accident and, though it
does not concur with those of other pa-
pers in the county, is strictly authentic.
WiLLis WooDRING 18 DEAD. —After
an illness of eight weeks Willis, the
youngest son of ex-sheriff D. W. Wood-
ring, died at the home of his father, on
east High street this place, at five
o'clock Tuesday evening.
His first ailment was an attack of low
typhoid fever and he had apparently re-
covered from it when he suflered a
relapse and an affection of the bowels
set in. His weakened constitution with
stood this, but when acute inflamma-
tiom of the bowels developed he could
not survive and death relieved his long
and weary suffering. o
Willis was a bright youth, just verg-
ing the age of manhood.—He was nine-
teen years old last January, industrious
and promising. It seems sad that one
at his age should be stricken, but “God’s
ways are not our ways,” A father, two
sisters and two brothers survive. Ss
Funeral services were held yesterday
afternoon. Interment was made in the
Union cemetery.
MARRIED. —On Wednesday Mr. H:
A. Leathers, of Mt. Eagle, was married
to Miss Emma A. Rowan, of Philadel-
phia at the home of the bride. Owing
to the serious illness of John B. Leath-
ers Esq., the groom’s father, the event
was very unpretentious and the young
folks arrived at Mt. Eagle yesterday,
| not caring to be absent any longer than
possible from the bed side of the strick-
en father.
MARRIAGE LIcENsEs.—Issued dur-
ing the past week—Taken from the
docket.
John C. Crader and Emma E. Snave-
ly, both of Gregg Twp.
Jobn R. Wiiliams and Annie P.
Stewart, both of Huston Twp.
Edgar V. Hoover, of Philipsburg and
Amanda M. Walker, of Orbisonia.
John A. Swabb, of Mt. Eagle, and
Harriett Thompson, Tipton Co., Ind.
——A most disgusting scene was wit-
nessed Tuesday afternoon in front of the
Bush House when two dogs which neith-
er offered nor wanted to fight were hiss-
ed and finally kicked on each other by
the owner of one of the dogs and some
other creatures who call themselves men
until in desperation they fought and tore
each other to suit the spectators. A
poor dumb animal is not supposed to
have much sense, but most of them have
more than the human brates who com-
pel and encourage dog fights,
——=Read the WATCHMAN,