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STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Governor,
WILLIAM M. SINGERLY,
of Philadelphia.
For Lieutenant Governor,
JOHN S. RILLING,
of Erie.
For Auditor General,
DAVID F. MAGEE,
of Lancaster.
For Secretary of Internal Affairs,
WALTER W. GREENLAND,
of Clarion county.
For Congressman-at-Large,
J. C. BUCHER.
of Union County.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
For Congress—AARON WILLIAMS,
For State Senator—J.C. MEYER,
Bubject to the action of the District conferees
For President Judge—C. M. BOWER,
; JAMES SCHOFIELD,
For Legistators, { FOB BRT M. FOSTER.
For Jury Commissioner—JOSEPH J. HOY.
For Associate Judge—THOMAS F. RILEY.
Practical Help for Those Who Need It.
For some years past there has ap-
peared in the daily issues of WILLIAM
M. SiNGERLY’S paper a notice headed
“Orders for Record Coal’! To the
casual reader it is of no interest, and
he scarcely stops to consider what it
means ; but its meaning is known to
hundreds of poor people in Philadel
phia to whom it has a beneficial sig-
nificance.
"The coal supplied by the Record, to
which this notice refers, is furnished
to a class of people who can ill afford
to pay the high prices for their fuel
which is too often imposed upon con-
sumers by the combination of coal
dealers. This coal can be had by
needy purchasers at figures that bare-
ly cover the cost, there being no inten-
tion to make a profit.
Those who are unacquainted with
the disadvantage of the poor of large
cities in the purchase of coal know
nothing of the oppression to which
they are subjected in procuring this in-
dispensable article. Buying small
quantities, as they are compelled to do,
they are usually made to pay more
than double price by the retailers. It
is for the relief of this class, it is
to shield from extortion the poor pur-
chaser whose few buckets of coal,
bought from the retailer's cart in the
street, cost proportionately thrice as
much as the rich man’s car of coal—it
is for the benefit of such as these that
the Record supplies fuel at a price
barely sufficient to cover expenses.
People whose circumstances enable
them to buy coal atthe market rates
find their orders for Record coal unat-
tended to. The benefit is intended for
the needy.
This practically charitable depart-
ment of Mr. SINGERLY’s great newspa-
per establishment has been diffusing
its benefits for about six years, as we
see by a recent report of its operations
that in 2139 days it had distributed
244,361 tons of cheap coal where it
would do the most good. Certainly its
object is not to make money, for there
is no margin for profit. It is surely
not intended for political effect, for it
was established years before Mr. Sin-
GERLY was nominated for an office, and
besides, the Record never produces po-
litical effect in that way. If we look
for a motive for this bevevolence, we
will find it eminaticg from the same
humane and enlightened spirit that
has made the editor of the Record the
enemy of a tariff system that has been
particularly unjust and oppressive to
the poorer class. We will find it
springing from the same disposition
that has led hie newspaper todenounce
the “pluck-me'’ stores that are the in.
struments of robbery practiced upon
working people, and to expose the
“Squeers” school system that abused
and starved the helpless children of de-
ceased veterans. It is his ingrained
enmity to the wrong, injustice and op-
pression to which the needy and de-
fenceless are customarily subjected,
that has prompted the action of Wi.
L1aM M. SINGERLY in this matter.
——Hon. S. R. PEALE, of Lock Ha-
ven, has written a letter declining to
be a candidate for the nomination for
Congress in the 16th district. The
Democratic convention of Clinton
county had endorsed him without his
soliciting it and as he has no desire to
go to Congress he refuses to enter the
field. Mr. PeaLE is advocating purity
in politics now, and condemns the per-
nicious practice of buying and selling
political supportas if it were so much of
& commodity in trade.
McKinley Logic and Ethics.
While the tariff bill was in the Seo-
ate at the mercy of half a dozen treas-
onable Democrats working in the in-
terest of protected monopolies, Presi-
dent CLEVELAND took occasion, in a let:
ter to Chairman WIiLsoN, to reprove
their conduct, stigmatizing their cur-
tailment of tariff reform as infamous.
It infamy ever appeared in the con-
duct of public men it made
its appearance in the limitation to
which those Senators were determined
to confine the reform promised by the
Democratic party in the prevailing tar:
iff system ; yet they succeeded in en-
forcing their determination. They
were able to force the party to take
their bill with reform circum scribed,
or to have no bill at all.
Nothing could have been more in-
famous, and it was properly stigma-
tized by the President. But the sup-
porters of McKINLEYISM are now re-
sorting to a species of logic that would
involve the President in this infamy
because he allowed this bill to become
alaw. The New York Sun and Tom
Reep are indulging in a syllogism
something like the following : The
President said that the conduct of the
Senators who insisted upon a bill that
did not carry out the full measure of
the promised tariff reform was infa-
mous ; those Senators succeeded in
forcing the passage of that bill; the
President did not veto it ; therefore the
President shares in the infamy he
condemned.
Such foolish logic won't work. It is
not calculated to deceive anybody. It
is the same as saying that where a
promise has been made, intended to
confer certain benefits, and some of
the parties to the pledge prevent its
terms from being fully carried out, the
others are culpable for living up to their
promise as far as they are able to do
so—that for the sake of general con-
sistency they should have also been
false. This is a specimen not only of
McKiNLEY logic, but of McKINLEY
ethics as well.
It is rather rough on the McKix-
LEYITES that the President did not act
in this matter in a way that would
have better suited their views and io
terests. How much better their situa-
tion would be to-day if he had vetoed
the bill. What disappointment, dis-
couragement and defeat a veto would
have brought to the Democratic party.
To have acted in a way so beneficial
and satisfactory to the trusts and the
Republicans. President CLEVELAND
would have had to be a fool, but if
there is anything that he isn’t, it is
that.
—— Every thoughtful citizen and
honest politician regards the practice
of gerrymandering as one of the great-
est of political evils. Its effect is the
destruction of fair and equal represen’
tation, and it is the source of abuses
that have seriously effected the politics
of the country. All good citizens
would like to see it suppressed, but the
Republicans seem to be so in love with
it that they are striving to make ita
permanent practice in New York by
means of the new constitution that is
being framed in that State. They are
trying to incorporate a provision in
that instrument that will perpetuate
the gerrymander which they now con-
trol. In Pennsylvania, through Re.
publican management, gerrymandering
is practiced in defiance of the constitu-
tion, and in New York they want to
make it constitutional.
The United States Acquiesces in the Re-
quest of Chinese and Japs.
Instructions for the Consuls.—They Are Notified
to Use Their Friendly Offices in the Protection
of Chinese Subjects in Japan and of Japa-
nese in China.—A Report That Two Japs Had
Beéen Given Asylum in the American Cansul-
tate in Shanghai Is Denied.
W AsHINGTON, Sept. 4.—The acquies-
cence of the United States in the re-
quest of both combatants in the east-
ern struggle to stand by as a mutual
friend to each, which was mentioned
in these dispatches at the outbreaks of
hostilities, has now assumed definite
official shape. The state department
has directed all diplomatic and consu-
lar officers in those countries to use
their friendly offices in the protection
of China's subjects in Japan and Jap-
anese subjects in China. Instructions
giving the scope of the protection to
be afforded have been eent to these of-
ficers. The term “Good offices’ grant-
ing of the right of asylum in the Unit.
ed States legations and consultates and
officers in the American foreign service
are not to have the functions of consu-
lar officers of either China or Japan.
All the Chinese consuls in Japan
and the Japanese consuls in China
bave gone back to their respective
countries and their interests are now
practically in the hands of the Ameri-
can officials, A report that two Jap-
anese eubjects had been given asylum
in the consultate general of the Uaited
States at Shanghai is contradicted by
the consul general. He cabled the
state department to-day that he had
not barbored the Japanese in question,
and it is probable that he merely ten-
dered his good offices in their behalf.
——1If you want printing of any de-
scripton the WATCHMAN office is the
; place to have it done.
Ghastly Heap of Dead.
Over a Hundred Charred Bodies Have Been
Gathered at Hinckley—Few Can Be Identi-
fied—It Is Now Believed People There Could
Have Been Saved—A Refuge Was Close at
Hand.
Pine City, Minn., Sept. 3.—The
hospital patients demanded the atten-
tion of the physicians all night, and the
only druggist in Pine City was kept
busy until daylight filling prescriptions
and supplying lotions. By morning all
were in a state of comparative comfort
and there were none whose hurts were
deemed fatal. The town hall was kept
open all night, and coftee and plain fare
served all comers. The court house, the
school bouse and many & private home
was thrown open. Every blanket was
called into service. The women and
children were given the better quarters
and the men stretched out in rows on
the floors of the two public buildings.
Before 7 o'clock in the morning the
construction train, loaded with material
for the repair of the bridge across the
Gladstone river at Hinckley, came up
from Rush City. A couple hundred
loaves of bread and other light provis-
10ns were placed on board. About 11
o’clock the bridge was sufficiently re-
paired to admit the passage of a train
and an engine, freight car and caboose,
with a plentiful supply of food and a
meager store of coffins was sent north.
At Hinckley the 30 or 40 caskets and
boxes, with their gruesome contents,
still lay alongside the track, where they
were placed last night. No attempt had
been made to dress orembalm, and they
were already growing very offensive.
Fortunately the day was cool and
cloudy, and grateful showers fell at in-
tervals. The remains of the dead, how-
ever, were in such a horrible condition
that decomposition rapidly set in. From
these bodies the officials of the St. Paul
& Duluth road had removed and care-
fully preserved every trinket and article
of jewelry, even shoes and scraps of
clothing, placing these from each body
in a receptacle numbered identically
with the casket.
Out in the little cemetery a mile east
of town was a scene which words are
powerless to describe. The little spot is
on the top ot a rough sandy knoll, where
nature is seen at her worst, and absolute-
ly no attempt toward artificial embellish-
ment has been made. Now, with the
blackened fire-scarred + stumps and
trees all about, it presented an ap,
pearance of awful desolation. But
ic the centre of the opening was the
the crowning horror. In an indis-
criminate heap lay more than 90 corpses,
women and children. Some burned
crisp, others only browned by the heat ;
some bloated until the abdomen cracked
open. Skulls were burned open and
brains escaping, and all were twisted
and cramped in agony. Men were
quickly at work digging a shallow
trench along the south end of the ceme-
tery. The sandy soil was ashard as flint.
It had been baked to a crust by weeks
of drouth and almost solidified by the
fire. The work progressed slowly.
Off in the corner of the clearing two
smaller graves were being dug. One
was for Mrs. Wm. Grisinger and her
two baby girls, 6 and 3. The husband
and father had recognized them in the
ghastly heap and was hard at work pre-
paring a final resting place apart from
the trench.
The other grave was for the Best
family, whose numbers make their de-
struction notable even in this time of
death. John Best, Jr., was digging the
pit, with the friendly assistance of two
neighbors. Laid in a row, decently cov-
ered, were the bodies of John Best, Sr.,
Mrs. Best, Fred Best, aged 23 ; Bertha,
aged 17 ; Mrs. Annie E. Wiegel, a mar-
ried daughter, and her 38-year-old daugh-
ter Minnie ; Mrs. Annie Truttman, of
Diamond Bluff, Wis., a visitor, aged 26,
and Victor Best, aged 8. Two other
sons, George, aged 25, and Willie, aged
21, are missing, and are certainly dead.
And of this whole family of three gen-
erations only the sorrowing grave-digger
and his wife and child, who took refuge
in a dugout, are left.
The only others who were recognized
were Charles Andersen, cashier of the
bank ; Mrs. Wm. Ginder and her daugh-
ter Winifred, aged 6. One or two oth-
ers were imperfectly identified, but 1t
was largely guesswork. Enough rude
boxes were knccked together to contain
most of these bodies, and they were
rapidly laid away under the sand, but
not before other bodies began to come in.
In the swamp across the Grindstone
where these corpses were found yester-
day were about 35 others which were
brought in this morning, making a total
of upward of 180 dead in this little
space of four or five acres. Down near
the river was found the body of Thomas
Dunn, the Duluth operator at Hinckley.
He stuck to bis key until the depot was
burning over his head.
Up the St. Paul & Duluth right of-
way were found three or four more
bodies. Among those who perished
north of town was Mr. H. Reckettson,
of No. 2316 Polk street, N. E. Minne-
apolis, who was here visiting his son.
He went out in a wagon with Dave
Kane, of Rock Creek, also a visitor here,
and both perished, though the horses
came out unscathed.
Only an Office Left,
Sandstone Devastated, and Fifty Bodies Lie
About the Streets.
SANDSTONE, Minn, Sept. 3.—All
that remains of what was once the pros-
perous village of Sandstone 1s the small
shack used by the Sandstone company
for an office. Crowded into this build-
ing and the ferry house were found over
200 people who had lost their homes
and everything they possessed except
their clothing.
All those saved at Sandstone were in
the river while the cyclone of flames
passed, and managed to escape cnly by
wading in the water as far as possible
and then throwing water over each
other’s heads. The coming ot the
flames sounded like thunder, and with
such rapidity did they come that people
who lingered to save property or neglec-
| ted to seek safety in the river perished
in the flames. As far as could be learn-
ed between 40 and 50 bodies were scat-
tered about the streets burned to a crisp.
The relief committee had paid but little
attention to bodies, as the living requir-
ed immediate attention. The town
oasted of a water works system, but as
some of the citizens remarked : ‘The
whole of Kettie river would not have
had any effect on the solid sheet of
flames.”
At Sandstone Junction, H. Linds’
wite and five children perished. Linds
was fatally burned, but is still alive.
Mr. Greenfield’s wife and six children,
of the same place, were burned. The
bridge watchman, Denmuth, of Sand-
stone, was so badly burned that he com-
mitted suicide before the rescuing par-
ties arrived.
Increase of Death Roll.
Over 650 Human Beings Known to Have Perish-
ed.— Whole Families are Dead.—The Greater
Part of the Lost Are Women and Children and
the Greatest Percentage of the Deaths Occur-
red Among the Settlers—Appalling Scenes in
the Fire Swept Country—Scouring the Woods
for Bodies of the Settlers.
DurutH, Minn., Sept. 4. —The death
roll resulting from the forest fires in-
creases and now over 650 are known
to be lost, the greater part women and
children. The greatest percentage of
deaths occurred among settlers, where
whole families were swept out of exist-
ence in the twinkling of an eye. Not
in any one direction, but in every part
of the fire swept district the finding of
bodies hourly swells the list. At an
early hour this morning a party of
thirty experienced woodsmen left on a
special conveyance to scour the woods
for bodies of settlers in out of the way
cabins and clearings, They are ex-
pected to bring back appalling reports.
In a stretch of territory twenty-six
miles long, and from one to fifteen
miles wide, not a single human habi-
tation bas been left standing except a
section house at Miller, and in every
part of the track of the flames bodies
of men, women and children, horses
and cattle were found. The position
of everybody found outside of Hinckley
shows that sheiter of gome kind was
sought by the agonized sufferers, and
the dead were found in holes behind
overturned stumps, trees, marshy de-
pressions and in every water course.
PEOPLE ANXIOUS TO SEE THE HORRORS.
S. A. Thompson, who went out on
the burial train yesterday, has returned
All the way down the trainmen almost
had to throw people off who wished to
go along and take in the grave sights.
At Finlayson a party headed by Ed
Finlayson dropped off and went east
several miles, visiting among other
places the Billeadeaut farm, where the
bodies of three children were found.
The rest of the family had gone to
Sandstone. A party headed by Fred
Reynolds dropped oft near Skunk lake
and got the bodies of Mrs. Lind and
five children, whose home was half a
mile west of the track. The train
picked up the bodies of Littel and Eld-
er, two operators of the North Ameri-
can Telegraph company, who had
been sent out to the scene of the trou-
ble, The train picked up ten bodies
besides that of General Passenger
Agent Rowley, of the Winnipeg, near
the track. It was learned that Pine
Lake, a settlement seven miles west of
Finlayson, was untouched, but nothing
has been heard of Sand Lake, a settle-
ment away from the railroad, and it is
feared it has gone up in smoke. An-
other body was discovered in the mud
at the edge of Skunk lake, but it could
not be gotten out.
SEVEN BODIES IN A CELLAR.
At Miller, A. A. Farrington and
Robert Forbes headed parties and
started for Sandstone and have uot
since been heard from. Thompson
himself headed a party that picked up
seven bodies in the Westerland cellar,
half a mile west ofithe wreck. Anoth-
er party, headed by Lynch, got the
bodies of Ed Greenfield’s five children
a balf mile south of the wreck, near
the track. A large man was picked
up over Hinckley nill, who was recog
nized by his brother-in-lay as Dennis
Ryan, watchman of the Hinckley saw-
mill. The burial train reached Hinck-
ley at 6 p. m. The coroner of Pine
county said there were 187 bodies al-
ready picked up in Hinckley alone,
with more to follow. They were piled
upin boxes and coffins near the track,
like so much cordwood.
Smoke Obscures the Sun.
Great Forest Fires in New York State—No
Rain Has Fallen for Weeks.
DopgeviLLe, N. Y., Sept. 3.—The
sun has not been seen here for nearly a
week so dense is the smoke overhead
from forest fires, both north and south.
There is 20 much smoke, however, that
many people believe a large proportion
of it comes from the great fires in the
west. The United Press correspondent
drove twenty miles north of here to in-
vestigate and found not less than a doz-
en fires burning in the woods. Most of
them were north of the Canada lakes
in the neighbornood of Garoga, but
they bave not yet reachrd the vauable
spruce timber tracts lying south Garoga.
The fires are being fought stubbornly by
the farmers and it is believed they will
not spread into the spruce belt.
The fires are burning in Oak moun-
tain, near Devereux, with a prospect of
taking off most of the timber. There is
no telegraphic communication north of
here and no details as to the damage can
be obtained. Reports have been re-
ceived, however, of extremely disastrous
fires in Lewis and Ulster counties.
There has been no rain in this section,
with the exception of one light shower,
for many weeks, and the soil is extreme-
ly dry. Unless rain falls socn the dam -
age in the Adirondacks will be enor-
mous.
Democratic Victory in Arkansas.
Lite Rock, Ark., Sept. 4 —Re-
turns from thirty-three counties indi-
cate increased Democratic majorities
over two years ago, although the total
vote will likely be 20 per cent. less on
account of the new election law, It is
estimated that the Democratic state tick-
et is elected by at least 25,000 majority.
Returns show a decrease in the vote for
both the Republican and Populist tick-
ets, while the Populist ticket is third in
the race.
——Do you read the WATCHMAN,
Opposed to Japan,
The Coreans Have Begun a Guerrilla Warfare
Against Them.
London, Sept. 3.—A dispatch to the
Times from Shanghai to-day says that
the Japanese Marquis Saigonje landed
at Chemulpo, Corea, on August 28, and
congratulated the King of Corea upon
having obtained his independence.
The dispatch adds that the Japanese
hold at present the provinces of Seoul,
Hwangho and the country around the
treaty ports. The remainder of the
country is said to be in possession of
armed bands of Coreans.
It is stated that the feeling against
the Japanese in Corea is increasing and
that the natives are commencing to
rage guerrilla warfare against them.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
A quiet wedding ceremony was
solemnized at the home of Sheriff and
Mrs. J. P. Condo, in this place, at
noon last Sunday. It was the marriage
of James Roush, of Penn township,
and Miss Mary Condo, a sister of the
sheriff. Rev. Kennelly, of Tioga coun-
ty county, officiated.
MAY PurcHASE THE CAR WORKS.
—The firm of Jenkins & Lingle, of this
place, is dickering for the car works
property here. Their lease of the ground
on which their present shops stand ex.
pires in Feb. ’96, so they are thinking of
finding a new location where they will
have more room for their extensive
operations.
It is altogether probable that the deal
will be made by which this firm will
become owners of the car works prop-
erty.
MARRIAGE LiceENsEs.—Issued dur-
ing the past week.—-Taken from the
docket.
David Finnegan, and Mrs. Rebecca
Ickes, both of Patton township.
James W. Roush, of Penn township
and Mary L. Condo, of Bellefonte.
Newel J. McCalmont, of State Col-
lege, and Dollie C. Fye, of Pine Grove
Mills.
John Kennelly, of Lewistown, and
Mary Jane Owens, of Burham, Mifflin
county.
Henry C. Shultz, of Liberty, Tioga
Co. and Maggie Winslow, of Liberty
township, Centre county.
TE DEATH OF DORIE SPANOGLE.—
‘We are called on to chronicle the sad
accident by which Dorie Spanogle lost
his life, the particulars of which, as near
as we can learn, are given in the fol-
lowing :
He was born near Gatesburg, this
county, on Oct. 13th, 1871 and conse-
quently was aged 22 years and 9 months
at time of his death, He was adopted
wher but a child by Mr. Henry Spano-
gle, residing near Port Matilda, who re-
garded him with a parental feeling be-
gotten by obedience on the part of the
boy. His christian name was Myers,
before his adoption, his mother now be-
ing married to Mr. Levi Reese, of
Worth township, who took a deep in-
terest in having his remains brought
home for burial.
At the age of 18 years, when his term
of service expired with Mr. Spanogle, he
sought employment elsewhere working
near his home until the spring of 1891
when he started for Davis, West Vir-
ginia, for the purpose of driving team at
which he met his death. Having in
his charge a pair of vicious horses which
caused his death in a manner yet
unknown to his friends. His remains
where brought to Black cemetery, Port
Matilda, where be was laid to rest
neath the clods his boyish feet had often
trod. Rev. J. P. Sarvis, pastor of the M.
E. church, officiating in an appropriate
manner. i
DeATH oF MRS. SARAH GRAY. —
Last Thursday, just as this paper was
going to press, Mrs. Sarah Gray, widow
of the late Samuel P. Gray and mother
of Durbin Gray, who at the time of his
death, eight years ago, was one of the
most trusted and highly respected law _
yers of the Centre county bar, died at
her home, near Grays’ church, in Half
Moon, in the 87th year of her age.
Aunt Sarah, as she was known to the
whole community, was a grand-daugh-
ter of Peter Gray, one of the first settlers
of Patton township, who came from
Fredrick county, Md., in 1780 and lo-
cated on what is now known as the Meek
farm. Her father, Peter Gray the 2nd,
lived and died on the Gray farm right
by the church and she is the last of his
family of six children: Pater B., Eliza
Martin, Jacob, John L. and Mary Ann
Meek. Sixty some years ago she mar-
ried her cousin Samuel Gray and much
of his success in life wasdue to her faith-
ful co-operation and her cheerful,
gentle disposition. Since his death
she has spent the winters wjth
| her daughter at Fillmore and the
summers at her own home, and until
two weeks before her death was in her
usual health.
Of her four children only two are liv-
ing, Rev. Tarring Gray, of Mt. Carmel,
and Mrs. Caleb Kepbart, of Fillmore,
| who has hersell been dangerously sick
for the last three weeks. For seventy-
three years she had been a member of
! the Methodist church and in all these
| years the fervor and simplicity of her
, faith,the nobility and unselfishness of her
' daily life and the sunniness of her dis-
| position was a constant inspiration to
, others. After the funeral services were
| held, Saturday morning at 10 o’clock, in
| Gray’s church, she was laid to rest in
Gray's burial ground, near Stormstown,
A NoviL Picnic DAY.—A pew de-
parture in the way of picnics has been
scheduled for Saturday, September 15th,
when there will be a grand rally of the
Y. M. C. Ass, Christian Endeavor and
Epworth League Societies of Centre,
Clinton and Lycoming counties at
Hecla park. It will be the gathering
of thousands of christian people for a
day of worship in the woods.
The program of exercises will include
addresses by noted workers in the va-
rious societies represented, choral singing
by classes from Williamsport, Lock
Haven and Bellefonte and many other
features. Meyer's band and orchestra
will be in attendance to accompany the
singers and altogether it will be very
much on the order of the mammoth
meetings at Ocean Groveor Chatauqua.
It will be the first thing of its kind
ever attempted in this region aud
doubtless will attract a great crowd.
Remember it is a basket picnic for every-
one and all are invited. Special excur-
sion rates on all rail-roads. The program
is under the control of the Bellefonte
Y M.C A.
A HisTORICAL REMINISCENCE.—The
death of the late Col. D. 8S.
Keller recalls an interesting historical
incident worthy of note. ‘The Re-
formed church in the United States”
was originally largely established by
descendants of “The Huguenots’ and
others like them who gave up country,
home, and friends for their faith’s
sake, and who afterwards in the land of
their adoption were ever found among
the bravest and foremost to uphold her
civil liberties.
Col. Keller’s ancesters belonged to
these. On his paternal sido the family
is supposed to have first settled in “The
old Swedes settlements.” Several
generations later, we find two young
men, Jacob and Christian Keller, enlist-
ed in the Federal army under General
‘Washington’s command : Jacob in the
“rank and file,” Christian acting as
secretary to General Washington.
Subsequently Jacob, stricken with
yellow fever, was sent to a hospital in
Philadelphia. Before he recovered and
was discharged, the army had moved its
quarters, and thus the brothers became
separated.
The war ended and they had never
met, each hearing and believing the other
to be dead.
Fifteen years passed away, when one
day on the streets of Philadelphia, the
two brothers, nearly a square apart,
recognized each other, ran, and embrac-
ed. They then discovered they had
been living all those years within 90
miles distance of each other. Jacob
afterwards, removed to Centre county,
where he became better known as
«Elder Jacob Keller,” being one of the
“pioneers” to plant the Reformed
church in this section. His descendants
are numerous and include many of the
most substantial and influential families
of the county. Col. D. S. Keller was a
great grand son, and therefore inherited
naturally, the patriotism loyalty and
fidelity for which he was so distin-
guished. *
C. M. Bower, Esq., Our JubiciaL
NoMINEE.—The conference of the dele-
gates of the 49th Judicial district to
nominate a candidate for the office of
President Judge, who will succeed Judge
Furst whose term of office expires .Jan-
uary 1st, met in Tyrone on Friday last.
The following conferees being present .
Samuel Wian, Philipsburg; A. J.
Griest, Feming ; H. A. Moore, Howard:
Solomon Peck, Nittany ; Wm. J. Sing-
er, Bellefonte; J. Dauberman, Centre
Hall; Geo. Eckle, Pine Grove Mills;
John Hoffa, Coburn, and Geo. W.
Keister, Aaronsburg. Huntingdon
county was represented by the follow-
ing: W. J. Forbes, Esq.,, H. W. Pet-
riken, fisq., and Geo. M. Cresswell.
The conference convened at 2 o'clock
p. m. and immediately upon its organi-
zation Mr. Petriken, of Huntingdon,
placed in nomination the name of C. M.
Bower, Esq. It was then moved that
| the nomination be made unanimous and
by acclamation. The motion was car-
ried, a committee being straightway ap-
pointed to escort the nominee into the
room. Upon the appearance of Mr.
Bower he made a neat speech thanking
the counties constituting the district
for the confidence reposed in him. The
usual formalities followed and the con-
ference adjourned.
Upon the arrival of the night train
from Tyrone the successful candidate
was met at the station by a party of
prominent Democrats headed by the
Coleville band. When he appeared on
the platform round after round of cheers
were given and he was escorted to a car-
riage. The procession then marched to
his beautiful home, on east Linn street:
where he took the opportunity of thank-
ing those about him for such a manifes-
tation of their good will. Messrs Ira C.
Mitchell, Esq., J.C. Meyer, Esq., and
Hugh S. Taylor, E:q., addressed the
gathering.
The nomination of Mr. Bower was
not an unlooked for action on the part
of the conferees. It was rather a fore-
gone conclusion that he would be our
candidate, inasmuch as his name was
the only one that had been presented.
He needs no introduction to the public.
His life and prominence are too well
and favorably known. He has ever
been a Democrat, sound and true, and
his candidacy will meet with the ap-
proval of the party in all sections.