"For Legistators,
Terms 2.60 A ¥ear,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., June 22, 1894,
P, GRAY MEEK, - - - Ebprror
Pemocratic County Ticket.
JAMES SCHOFIELD,
ROBERT M. FOSTER.
For Jury Commissioner—JOSEPH J. HOY.
For Associate Judge—THOMAS F. RILEY.
——
Aa Injudicious Proposition.
The Democrats of Minnesota, in con-
vention assembled, have demanded
that the tariff bill shall be up to the
full standard of Democratic tariff re-
‘form, and want the House to reject the |
bill when it comes from the Senate
with the amendments which make the
‘duties higher than in the origical bill.
This proposition is a spirited ex-
pression of tariff reform sentiment, but
it would net be wise to enforce it.
Such a rejection of the tariff bill by the
House would ‘be likely to bring about
an entire failure of tariff legislation at
this session. It would be disastrous
to the Democratic party, and in that
‘way would prevent the future action
of the party by which it would
ultimately perfect its tariff reform
policy. This is by no means the last
Democratie tariff bill, if the party
shall remain in power.
That there are defects in the Senate
bill eanrot be denied, but they are
due to unawveidable causes for which |
If there’
was such a preponderating Democrat- |
the party 16 not responsible.
ic ‘majority inthe Senate as there is
-in the House, there would be no dif-
“ficulty in the situation, but the major-
ity is so small that a few huckstering
and disaffected Senators are able to
force concessions to unduly protected
interests,
Wisdom demands that, notwith-
standing its defects, the bill be passed
as goon as possible. It is not such as
the Democracy, if untrammeled in the
Senate, would &dopt, but it isa great
deal better than the McKinrey bill,
and it effects a large measure of tariff
reform. Whea the party promised re-
form by the reduction of oppres-
sive duties it could not specify the
extent of the reductions it would
make; ‘but that it has made a decided
reduction is a fulfillment of its pledge
as far as ils power extends.
This is but the first step of the Dem:
ocracy toward relieving the country of
grievous tariff burdens. Whether
they shall remain in a situation to take
farther steps in that direction, by the
passage of other tariff bills, making
still greater tariff reduction, will de-
pend upon their judicious action at the
Present time in pushing the WiLsow
ill, even with its defects, to as speedy
a passage as lies in their power.
OT TRA.
Low Priced Wool,
Nothing will do the country more
good, both as a benefit to the people
geuerally, and to the industry with
which it will be especially connected,
than the placing of wool on the free
list. It will be instrumental in furnish-
ing cheaper and better clothing, and
will enlarge, improve and invigorate a
line of industry which has long labored
under the disadvantage of a tax upon
its raw material. In this view of its
effect are embraced the aggregate
benefi's of free wool.
Yet it is surprising, and an illustra-
tion of the struggle required for the at-
tainment of every great public benefit,
that the schedule of the tariff bill that
included the inestimable advantage of
free wool was carried only by the
small majority of two in the Senate:
Much of the opposition totaking the
tariff off wool is dae to the singular de-
lusion of wool raisers that their interest
requires protective duties. This mis-
taken notion ie maintained in the face
of the fact, which their own experience
should force upon their attention, that
the wool interest has steadily declined
as the duty on the imported article has
advanced, and that under the highest
tariff that was ever laid ‘on that com:
modity the domestic wool producers
are getting the lowest prices that were
ever paid for their product. To what
influence; to what mental hocus pocus
isto be attributed the wool that is
drawn over the eyes of wool raisers on
the tariff question ?
On this subject the Bradford Star
has the following pertinent and timely
paragraph :
“It is a historical fact that when J. P. Kirby,
M. E. Solomon, W. A. Rockwell, Driefuss and
many others bought wool in Towanda
borough under the tariff of 1857 and up to the
outbreak of the war the current price for
Bradford county wool was about forty cents a
pound. How is i} now after thirty years of
high protection and nearly four years of Me-
Kinley robbery ? Will it bring twenty-five
It is a fact in all parts of the coun:
try, wherever wool is raised, that high
tariffs have not been attended with
high prices of wool, and the WiLsox
tariff will eventually convince the wool
men that by the stimulus which free
wool will impart to the woolen manu-
facture the demand for, and the value
of their own product will be en- |
hanced,
The Telephone Extertion.
Nothing could be a greater outrage
upon the public than the extension of
the 'BerL telephone patent which
would give that monopoly a continua-
tion:of its extortion. Its proposed to
effect this by tacking another patent
on to the expiring claim of the BELL
company. Preparations for such an
arrangement were made long ago, when
application was made for patenting
the BERLINER telephowe in 1877, but
proceedings were suspended in the
patent office until 1891, when a pa-
tent was issned and assigned to the
corporation. There was evidently a
«collusion in this case which for years
held the BERLINER device in reserve un- |
til near the expiration of the BeLL pa- |
tent, when a patent for it would be grant-
‘ed to the latter company with all the
rights it would convey ‘for another full
term. The public sheuld not be sub-
jected to seventeen years more of tele
phonic robbery by such a trick.
The validity of the BERLINER patent,
under which the Bzur people propose
to effect this object, is being tested in
the courts, and itis hardly probable
that their great profits derived from
such an exaction upon the American
people will be sustained and prolong-
ed by a judicial decision.
ground for the suspicion that crooked-
ness was practiced in the patent office
in managing this BERLINER patent so
that it would fit in with the BELL inter-.
est, and if this isthe way things are
wanagedin that department an inves.
tigation would not be out of order.
Discreditable to Philadelphia.
It is not creditable to Philadelphia
that great difficulty is experienced in,
raising the comparatively small sum
of $3,000 required to put the equestrian
statue of General MoCLELLAN in its.
intended position in front of the City
A good Jest Uf eendifty ang; cepted it only because it was strictly in
Hall.
much ridicule has been heaped upon
New York city for its failure to raise
the large sumvf money that would be
necessary to build its proposed ‘Grant
monument, but its case is not as cen-
surable or ridiculous as would be
Philadelphia's failure to secure the
trifling sum needed for the McCLELLAN |
memorial,
That city plumes itself on its patriot |
ism and is in the habit of boasting of its
loyalty. General McCLELLAN was one
of the most distinguished and able
soldiers in the war for the Union. He
organized the armies that conquered
the rebellion, and he often led them to
vietory. He wasa favorite, not of the
politicians, but of the gallant men who
rallied to the defence of the old flag.
Besides, he was a native of Philadel
phia, and his renoun reflects credit up-
on the city of his birth, These being
the facts, connected with his glorious
history, his native city has reason to
be ashamed that it experiences a dif-
ficulty in securing the small amount of
money that is yet needed for the stat-
ue of her greatest soldier.
TR
—— Tbe crushing defeat which
president judge A. O. Furst received
at the hands of his party at the pri-
maries last Saturday is only another
evidence of how ungrateful Republi-
cans can be. After having spent a ten
years term on the bench, always
watchful of personal and political io-
terests, he came before his party in
this county for its endorsement for a
re-nomivation. With the assurance
that Huntingdon county would be for
him the Republicans of Centre turned
him down with ouly seventeen of the
one hundred and twenty-two delegates _
He did not even go before the conven -
tion on Tuesday and Jounx G. Love
was unanimously endorsed. This de-
feat of Judge Furst has brought out
K. Arex Lovet, of Huntingdon,
who will be a candidate for the nomi-
nation now that Fursrisoff. He will
try to carry his county against Love at
their primaries to-morrow and it is al-
together likely that Furst's friends will
find their revenge in the support of
LovEeLL.
The contest in this county was one
of the bitterest ever known. There
was no end of the dirty stories kept
afloat and 80 much rum and boodle
were used that decent Republicans are
ashamed that their party should have
been so disgraced.
EE —————
~—— Congressman Georee F,
Kriss was defeated in his contest for
the Clarion county conferees last Sat-
urday and has thus suffered an early
nipping of his budding hopes for a
third term. Centre county has two
candidates in Messrs. WiLLiAMs and
Heivie. Clearfield county will present
the names of Jaco Trumy, and
GEORGE BrissiN, while Clarion has al-
ready instructed for Mr. Fox. What
Eik and Forest will do is not known
yet. :
——The Democratic State Conven.
tion will meet in Harrisburg, Wednes-
day, June 27th.
There is |
b
—— Should President ATHERTON, of
The Pennsylvania State College, con-
clude to ask the next Legislature for
an appropriation for the institution
which he has guided to such promi-
nenoe in the educational world, it
might not be a bad plan for him to save
the stenographer’s report of Dr. Pgp-
rER's address before the graduating class
at State College last week. Dr. Pepper
has long been the head of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia,
the friends of which institution regu-
larly ‘fight all attempts on the part of
State' College to obtain needed appro.
priations. Inthe event of their being
confronted with copies of the address
he made at the latter place, in which
he spoke very highly of the College
and declared it “second to none of the
technical institutions of the State,”
they would possibly be without a leg
to stand on in their opposition to ap-
propriating money to a place, thatsome
of the Philadelphia members have
been bigoted enough to say, “is never
beard of.’
—The burning of the abattoir in the
Jersey City stock yards, last, Saturday
and the consequent death of six thous-
and sheep must have been calculated to
savor of roast mutton.
ERSTE
Hensel Out of the Race.
He Declares He Wouldn't Accept the Guberna-
torial Nomination.
LANCASTER, Pa., June 18.—Attor-
ney General Hensel to-night made this
statement :
“Any mention of my name in con-
nection with the Democratic Guberna-
4:terial nomination is wholely without
authority or encouragement from me.
Simply to set at rest all such further
mention, the association which you re-
present may say that I am not, never
have been and never expect to be an
aspirant or candidate for any office,
elective or filled by appointment.
“The official position which I now
bold came to me unsolicited, and I ac-
the line of my profession. To the
practice of law I expect to give all my
time and attention, except such as are
necessary for the exercise of those or-
dinary social and political duties which
every man owes to the community in
which he lives.
“To be entirely explicit, and to
avoid all misunderstandings, my name
| will not go before the Demacratic
State Convention. I would accept no
nomination from any party to any
office, nor would I accept any political
office from any power that could be-
stow it.”
Halt the Mines Have Started.
PirrsBURG, June 18,—But few re-
ports have reached the city from the
Pittsburg mining district to-day. It is
safe to say, however, that at least one-
half of the mines were started and by
Thursday it is expected that a majority
will be in operation. The miners and
operators have not altogether definite-
ly settled concerning the dead work
scale and the price to be paid for lab-
or. The situation 1a the river dis-
trict is still a trifle complicated and it
is not known when the river pits will
resume. A few of them have already
gone to work, but the majority is idle.
Many of the river operators object to
signing a scale for a year. It is possi-
ble that serious complications may yet
arise in the river districts.
District President Cairns, of the min-
ers’ union, has received several calls
to-day to go to different points in the
district to adjust vexing questions that
have arisen. From thisit will be seen
that all is not smooth by any means
and that the district officers will have
much to do before getting everything
in order for a general resumption.
Nearly all of the many mills and
factories in the vicinity of Pittsburg
that have been closed by the fuel
famine are preparing to resume at once.
A Clearfielder Honored.
WasHINGTON, June 20.—The new
assistant treasurer at Philadelphia,
William D. Bigler, whose appointment
to-day appears to be regarded by the
Philadelphia delegation as another of
President Cleveland’s surprises, is a son
of ex-Governor Bigler, of Clearfield, Pa.
and a brother of E. Bigler, who was
collector of internal revenue in the
western district of Pennsylvania during
Mc. Cleveland's former administration.
——The Cambria Iron company is
preparing to build ovens and bura its
own coke and thus in the future be
iadependent of strikes and strikers.
Ouly non union men are now employ-
ed at the Cambria iron works. The
coke ovens will be erected on the hill
side above the mills. A new German
process of burning coke will be intro-
duced.
Wiman Sentenced.
NEw York, June 20.—This morn-
ing Erastus Wiman, convicted of for-
gery, was sentenced by Judge Ingra-
ham to five years and six mouths im-
prisoument at hard labor in Sing Sing.
Must Reside Along the Route.
Hereafter postal clerks must reside
at some point on the route to which
they are assigned. Those living along
fore May 1895
ICAO.
—— No matter how hard the times
the one thing you cannot afford to go
without is all the news. If you want
all the news you get it in the Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
lishes all—not & part only.
1
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, Judge Phelps Dead.
He Passed Away Peacefully Surrounded by His
I rie nds.
ENGLEWOOD, N. 4., June 17.—At
1:50 o'clock this morning Judge Wil-
{liam Walter Phelps passed away.
The end was so peaceful that for some
minutes after he had breathed his last
his family, who were watching at the
bedside with intense sorrow, would not
believe that the end had come.
The patient was unconscious to the
end and appeared to pass into a deep
sleep. Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Von
Rottenburg were greatly overcome with
grief, but bore up nobly. Grouped
around the bedside were Mrs. Phelps,
Mrs. Von Rottenburg and his sons,
Captain John J. Phelps and Sheffleld
Phelps.
Scores of telegrams of sympathy
have been received by the sorrowing
family from many prominent persons.
William Walter Phelps was born in
New York city August 24, 1838. He
was a lineal descendant of William
Phelps (a brother of John Phelps, Oli-
ver Cromwell's private secretary,) who
came to this country and settled near
Simsbury, Coan., in 1630.
At an early age he was sent to Yale.
He graduated second in his class in
1860. Three years after leaving Yale
he was graduated from Columbia law
school and entering active practice he
became counsel for several prominent
corporations before he was 30 years
old.
In 1872 Mr. Phelps was elected to
the United States House of Represen-
tatives from the New Jersey district
where his country seat was located.
In 1881 President Garfield appointed
Mr. Phelps United States Minister to
Austria, where he proved a valuable
representative. On the change of ad-
ministrations he tendered his resigoa-
tion and retired in August, 1832.
Shortly after the inauguration of
President Harrison Mr. Phelps was
appointed United States Minister to
Germany, which post he filled eredit-
able until a change in the administra-
tion, when he returned to this country.
He was elected to the Forty-eighth,
Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses.
Mr. Phelps was a regent of the
Smithsonian institution; a fellow of
the corporation of Yale college; vice
president of the Yale alumni associa-
tion, president of the Columbia law
school alumni and one of the founders
of ibe Union league and University
clubs,
——
Strike is Ended.
The Miners Will Go to Work at 40 Cents . Per
Net Ton.
The Central Pennsylvania strike of
coal miners is probaby ended by the
action that was taken in Altoona ou
Saturday afternoon at a meeting of
President Bradley and independent
operators. The conference was held
in the office of Richard Hughes, in
the First National bank building. Mr.
Bradley went to the city in accor-
dance with an invitation that was ex-
tended to him. The local operators
were desirous of a settlement and with
that ead in view agreed to give 40
cents a net ton. This compromise
agreement was accepted by President
Bradley and the miners were
notified to go to work that day or
as soon thereafter as possible. It is
likely that the rate agreed upon atthe
Altoona meeting will be generally ac-
cepted throughout this region.
This will be good news for all of our
people and it probably denotes the be-
ginning of better times than have been
experienced for the past year.
Mr. Bradley's Reason.
PHILIPSBURG, Pa., June 20.— Presi-
dent Bradley, of the miners’ organiza.
tion, furnishes the United Press with
the following reason for countermand-
ing the order for the miners to resume
work where a compromise price was of-
fered. “When I arrived at Duboise,”
said President Bradley, “I found so
much dissatisfaction along the Toby
Valley branch ot the Allegheny Valley
railroad and throughout Northern Penn-
sylvania, not on account of the price of-
ferred but on account of the partial set-
tlement, that I concluded the only way
to give satisfaction was to rescind the
order for resumption and call a conven-
tion for next Monday, when a thorough
understanding may be had.
“To sum it all up it was on account
of the general dis:atisfaction and the
danger of an outbreak among those for
whom no settlement had been made,
which undoubtedly would have ended
in riot and bloodshed.”
-—— Subscribe for the WaTcEMAN.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——The farm house occupied by
Emanuel Downing, near Vail, caught
fire on Friday from a defective flue and
burned down.
amounting to $500 on the building and
$300 on its contents.
—— While under the influence of
liquor, last Friday evening, William R.
Miller, of Huntingdon, drank lauda-
num and died shortly after. He was
33 years old, a son of G. Ashman Miller
a prominent furniture dealer of that
place, and leaves a wife and one child.
Edward Couch a fellow reveler has
been arrested on the charge of murder-
ing Miller. It has developed since the
arrest that Couch administered the
laudanum then took Miller's ring,
money and watch and fled to Tyrone
other lines must make the change be- where he was arrested later. He was a
barber in Huntingdon and had just
finished serving a six months term in
prison for forgery. He only intended |
An insurance was held 5
——The value of insuring in a good
reliable company is seen in an open
letter published in this issue by Mrs.
Josephine . Cruse. It shows how
much cheaper and yet how secure
was her husband’s insurance in the
Mutual Reserve than it would have
been in any other company. Hurxthal
Smith, of Clearfield, is the district
manager, and he is pushing the business
of this wonderful company to enormous
figures.
MARRIAGE LIceNsSES. —Issued dur
ing the past week.--Taken from the
docket.
Martin M. Keller, College Twp., and
Nora M. Remmy, Spring Twp.
George R. Parker and Mary C. Scho-
field, both of Bellefonte.
W. W. Krisher, of Cherry Run, and
R. A. Grimm, of Sober.
Rev. Geo. E. Limbert, of Grove City,
and Flora Moyer, of Centre Mills.
Thomas Crowley, of Philadelphia,
and Laura H. Wright, of Milesburg.
Dr. A. W. Hafer, of Bellefonte, and
Laura M. Hess, of Harris Twp.
John Hartsock, of Buffalo Run, and
Myrtle E. Robinson, of Huston Twp.
Alfred M. Wasson, of Lemont, and
Sarah C. Pierce, of State College.
Guy C. Linn and Carrie M. Gehret,
both of Bellefonte.
Tae MiLiTiA ORDERED OvUT.—
Thursday mornings papers contained
the following dispatch :
HARRISBURG, June 21.— About mid-
night Governor Pattison and Adjutant
General Greenland arrived from Phila-
delphia and some startling dispatches
regarding the strike situation at Punx-
sutawney were placed in their hands.
Sheriff Gourley wired that the foreign
miners had taken possession of the Wol-
sten mines and he could not control the
strikers. After a conference of the gov-
ernor and others it was decided to send
the Fifth and Sixteenth regiments to
the scene and orders to this effect were
issued. Before they had been forward-
ed, however, they were countermanded,
it being decided to await further infor-
mation which cannot be received before
7 o'clock a. m.
It caused the greatest excitement here
for it had been the general impression
that the strike had about ended and
when at noon Lieut. Col. Mullen and
Capt. W. F. Reber, Co. 5th Reg. N. G.
P. received telegrams to report at Bell-
wood for a rendezvous with their com-
mands everyone was on the gui vive.
Nothing more definite could be learn-
ed than that the disturbance in the
vicinity of Punxsutawney had become
so serious as {0 necessitate the ordering
out of the 5th and 16th Regs. Co. B.
left here at 5:12 for Bellwood, the ren-
dezvous, thence the entire command
will proceed to Punxy.
There is no telling how long the boys
may have to stay there as the strikers
will probably behave just as long as
the militia remains on the ground. But
as soon as it leaves they will undoubted-
ly go back to their old tactics, if the
strike is not ended meanwhile.
A Horse STOoLEN-THE THIEF IN
JAIL.— A large dapple gray horse
was stolen ffom the stable of Mr. J. T.
Holt,near Unionville, on Sunday night.
A saddle and bridle were then procured
from the stable of Grant Hoover and
the thief, mounted on his stolen steed,
made his escape.
On Monday morning a stranger ap-
peared at Mill Hall wanting to sell a
beautiful gray horse at a ridiculously
low. price. This excited suspicion
and the chief of police at Lock Haven
was notified. Being unable to make a
sale at Mill Hall, the stranger proceeded
to Felmlee’s sale stable in Lock Haven,
where a job had been put up to catch
him. Parsuant to instructions from
the police Mr. Felmlee offered a check
for $25.00 for the horse. It was ac-
cepted, but upon presenting it at the
Trust Co’s. office the stranger was in-
formed that no funds coull be had until
next day. By keeping him in town
awaiting payment the police hoped to
gain time in which to hear from sur-
rounding towns, for they had had no
orders to arrest the man and only sup-
posed he had stolen the horse because
he wanted to sell it so cheap.
Meanwhile the stranger, who gave
his name as Geore Rowan, purchased a
pair of shoes and in that way got the
check cashed. He then went to Fore-
paugh’s circus, that exhibited in the
town that night, and was there arrested
by chief Keller, of the Lock Haven
force, upon a warrant sworn out by Mr.
Holt who had appeared and identified
his property.
Rowan was brought to Bellefonte
next morning and given a hearing be-
fore justice Keichline, who remanded
him to - jail for court. He is about 20
years of age and hails from the vicinity
of Philipsburg. Some time ago he ran
off with another man’s wife out there
and brought her into Unionville where
they remained until the hunsband came
after his bird, then Rowan stole the
horse and fled.
When searched here he had a small
diary on his person ‘that belonged to
editor Kurtz, of the Democrat, or to
commissioner’s clerk, R. F. Hunter, but
: giving Miller enough of the drug to put ' neither of them could imagine how it
him to sleep for the purpose of robbery,
The Dispatch pub- but now he will have to answer the
charge of murder.
came into the possession of the thief.
——Read the WATCHMAN,
THE MEDICAL SOCIETY MEETING. ——
At a meeting of the Centre and Clear-
field county’s medical society, held in
Philipsburg last Thursday, the following
physicians were present. Drs. J.Y, Dale,
Lemont; Thos. Tobin, Stormstown ;
Edw. Burd, Snow Shoe; M. G. Whittier,
Houtzdale ; J. L. Henderson, Osceola ;
Miller and Purnell, Ansonville : Stew-
art, Clearfield ; Spackman, DuBois ;
Good, Osceola ; Dunwiddie, McGirk,
Lytle, Harman, Andrews, Henderson,
Emigh, Buckingham and Potter, Phil-
ipsburg.
The guests were Dr. J. W. White, of
Philadelphia; Drs. Ball and Watson, of
Lock Haven ; Drs. Miller and Har-
man, of Huntingdon, and Dr. Frea, of
Williamsport.
Several papers on timely subjects
were read and after the evening session
a banquet at the Potter house was en-
joyed by the society.
WiLL THEY STRIKE OIL AND Gas?
—A't a meeting of the directors of the
Salt Lick oil and gas company held at
the Fallon house, in Lock Haven, last
Thursday night, the members of the
board were very sanguine of a success-
ful termination of their venture.
It was decided to contract with a
driller to sink the wells just as soon as a
few leases for land can be closed up.
As it is the desire of the company to get
control of all the property lying along
what is known as the “oil belt” before
operations are begun at all, a few more
leases secured will end the preliminary
work and the drilling will be begun.
J. H. Holt Eeq., was elected presi-
dent of the company and R. C. Gilli-
land, of Pottersdale, was chosen to suc-
ceed Mr. Holt on the board of directors.
President Holt, treasurer J. W. Smith,
and secretary Moore Fredericks were
appointed a committee to contract for
the drilling.
If hopefulness counts for anything
and indications have any foundation,
then it will not be long until a wonder-
ful new oil and gas field will have been
opened almost at our doors.
JouNy MrLLs HALE Esq, DEAD.—
The sudden death of John Mills Hale
Eeq., one of Philipsburg’s prominent
citizens and a man well known here,
occurred at the Lafayette hotel,in Phila-
delphia, last Sunday.
Being warned by symptons of im-
pending paralysis early in May he went
to Philadelphia to place himself under
the care of Dr. Roland Curtin, a cousin,
and a physician reputed of great em-
inence. Thence he went to Spring Lake,
N. J. where the sea air benefited him
for a time, but upon fear of a relapse
he started to return home and stopping
in Philadelphia he was stricken next
day. His entire body was paralyzed and
his organs of speech were affected also,
but consciousness remained until his
death.
The body was taken to Philipsburg
on Monday and on Wednesday the Rev.
Dr. Clerc, his aged pastor and friend,
conducted the last sad services before
the burial.
John Mills Hale was the second son
of General Revben Charles Hale and
Sarah Jane Mills Hale. He was born
at Lewistown, Pa., Feb. 18, 1839. His
early education was received in the com_
mon schools of Lewistown and Phila-
delphia, to which latter place General
Hale removed in 1853. In 1859 John
Mills Hale entered the University of
Pennsylvania, and in 1862 graduated.
Immediately after his graduation he
took up the study of law under the di-
rection of his father, who was at that
time quarter master general of Penn-
sylvania. In 1863 his father died and
the family, including Mr. Hale, came
to Philipsburg to live, and have ever
since been residents. Mr. Hale continu-
ed the study of law under the tutorship
of his uncle, Judge James T. Hale, and
Adam Hoy. In April 1867, he was ad-
mitted to the Bellefonte bar and at once
began the practice of law in Philips-
burg.
In commenting on his manner of life
the Philipsburg Ledger says the follow-
ing: He was a man of cultivated
literary tastes, and extensive reading
and travel in foreign lands bad given
him an exhaustless store of information.
He Pad a passion for collecting auto-
graphs, rare coins and old prints and
books. Early in life he began his col-
lection and being possessed of liberal
means, which enabled him to gratify his
taste, he succeeded in building the
largest and finest collection in the United
States, standing third in value. Among
bis autographs are those of nearly all
the kings and queens of England from
the time of Alfred, beside autographs of
many historical celebrities of the old
world, including the reformers Luther
and Melancthon and other famous peo-
ple, with their portraits. A complete
set of autographs of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, auto-
graphs of all the presidents of the United
States and all the American bishops of
the Episcopal cburch. His collection
of stamps and coins are equally rare and
valuable, as is his collection of old
books, prints and manuseripts.”’
Mr. Hale was NET and is sur-
vived by two brothers and two sisters.
He was a man whose death the town
of Philipsburg has every reason to
mourn, as he was benevolent and heart
and soul in every movement for the ad-
vancement of that place.