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Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. 13, 1895.
Ebpi1ToR.
P. GEAY MEER, '- - -
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
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For State Treasurer.
BENJAMIN F. MYERS, of Harrisburg.
For Judges of Superior Court,
HARMON YERKES, of Bucks county.
J. S. MOOREHEAD, of Westmoreland Co.
C. H. NOYES, of Warren county.
P. P. SMITH, ot Lackawanna county.
OLIVER P. BECHTEL, of Schuylkill, Co.
CHRISTOPHER MAGEE, of Allegheny Co
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
For Prothonotary.—W, F. SMITH,
of Penn Twp.
For District Attorney.—W. J. SINGER,
of Bellefonte.
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Nominating U. S. Senators.
The Democrats of Utah have done a
good act and set a good example by
having their State convention name
two men as candidates for United States
Senators at the same time that it nomi-
nated candidates for the Supreme court
and for Representatives in Congress.
Utah will be admitted into the Union,
as a. State, at the next session of Con-
gress, and if the Democrats shall carry
the Legislature it will be coneidered
binding upon the Democratic majority
"in that body to elect the men whom
the State convention has named for
the United States Senate.
It would be a good thing to adopt
this plan as a rule in the selection of
genatorial candidates, until the better
one of electing them by the people can
be adopted. If State conventions,
composed of delegates coming directly
from the people, should assume the
authority of naming the persons whom
the Representatives in the State Legie-
lature should vote for when United
States Senators are to be elected, the
will of the respective parties would be
better &érved, corruption in the elec
tion of those officers would be preven-
ted to a large extent, and there would
probably not be eo many senatorial
seats occupied by mere millionaries.
The Democratic party, at least, should
endeavor to establish this rule and
practice it until there can be such a
change made in the constitution as
will enable the people to elect the
representatives in the higher branch of
Congress.
SO —
The Blue and Gray Love Feast.
The love feast which the Blue and
the Gray have been holding in Louis.
ville this week shows that the sectional
rancor engendered by the war no longer
rankles in the bosoms of the veterans
of either section. They have forgot.
ten the. animosities of the past and
meet together as brothers,
This is a glorious sight and most
gratifying to every true patriot, but
it affords no comfort to the politicians
who ran their campaigns largely on
eectional hatred, but who must now be
pretty well convinced that there is no
more politics in the bloody shirt. The
force bill was their last effort in that
- line, but that infamous measure has
been discarded. and the union of hearts
and hands on the part of Northern and
Southern soldiers, euch as was wit-
nessed in Louisville this week, teaches
that force is no longer a factor in the
relations between the two sections, but
has been succeeded by harmony and
brotherly love.
A few years ago it was said by Re-
publican politicians that there was
“one more campaign in the bloody
shirt,” but that is played out complete-
ly, and the eame class of politicians
will discover before they area year
older that there are no more campaigns
in the calamity howl.
————
——During the past year, exclu-
sively since the Democratic tariff went
into@operation, the additions to the
Southern cotton mills have been 800,-
000 spindles, representing an invest
ment of $15,000,000, and yet some
people talk about McKINLEY being a
logical candidate for President. Se-
riously speaking, is it probable that he
will be thought of in the coming presi-
dential eampaign ? : .
——
Appendicitis Easy to Cure.
No Need of the Knife, Says Dr. McGuire to
Medacine Men.
RicaMoND, Va., Sept. 6.—Some pop-
ular ideas concerning appendicitis were
explored by Dr. Hunter McGuire before
the Virginia Medical Association in its
sesgions at Wytheville. He has a nation-
al reputation, having been Stonewall
Jackson’s eurgeon and president of the
American Medical Association. He
said that he had never, in all operations
he had performed for this trouble, seen
a single grape, tomato or cherry seed,
and he was very much pleesed to be able
to make this statement, so as to set at
rest the fears existing among the laity
as to the dangers of these fruits.. He
also said he was sure the disease could
be cured without the use of the knife.
s~=Do you read the WATCHMAN,
Democratic State Convention.
Huntingdon. It will, therefore be of
vast help to the Democracy of Cen-
tral Pennsylvania for this Convention to
bestow the nomination upon the candidate
from Centre county. Take a candidate from
the East, and from the West, from the North
and from the South of our great State, if you
will, and as it would seem wise to do, but when
you come to the central portion of the State
there is no candidate so well iocated geo.
graphically, and no place so much entitled to
a candidate as Centre County.
The candidate I present to you is an honor,
ed member of the Centre County Bar — a
lawyer of marked ability, industry, patience,
courage, of indomitable energy, large
research and leaaning and knowledge
of the ‘law and of more than
twenty-two years practice and experience at
the Bar. Irecognize the fact that it is not
every good lawyer thay may make a good
Judge. Much depends on his habit of thought
and study and his practice and experience at
the bar, While the candidate I present hss al-
ways been a Democrat and in all campaigns
has done his full ehare of the work necessary
to be done, as well as contributed to the sinews
of war, his whole life, since he become a mem-
ber of the Bar, has been given to the study and
practice of the law. His has been the life
and practice of the lawyers who, when called
to the bench, have made pre-eminately suc.
cessful and acceptable judges. During the
last ten or fifteen years he has been concerned
on one side or the other in all ajectment cases
involving title to unseated lands of great value,
which have been tried in the courts of Centre
Counts, and is recognized as a well armed and
equipped lawyer in this important branch of
the law.
In 1894 he was the candidate of his party for
J udge of the Courts of Common Pleas in the
49th Judicial Dist rict; and, while it is true he
was covered over in the cyclone which struck
us, [laughter] when the votes were counted, it
was discovered that he was more than fifteen
hundred votes ahead of his ticket [great
cheering] He had the earnest, hearty support
of his party and received the votes of many
hundred Republicans who were fully satisfied
that he was more than qualified to preside
over our Courts of Common Pleas, and for this
reason gave him their suffrages. [Calls of
Bower, Bower].
He has never held office above that of a
School Director or Trustee of a College or
church, indeed he never sought office, or
would have any, and it was by common con-
sent that his fellow citizens when in search of
a candidate for judicial honors would turn to
him as the one proper person, and lawyer
whom they would clothe with the judicial
ermine.
Prominent in the church to which he be-
longs, liberal in his contribution to benev.
olence, and charity pure in life, of irre.
proachable character ; in all things which are
necessary to make a good Judge, to maintain
the dignity and purity of our Courts, to ad-
minister justice and judgment evenly and
without fear favor or malice to any, he excels.
I, therefore, gentlemen of the Convention,
present to you for your suffrages, Calvin M.
Bower, [at this point the cheering was so long
that the speaker had to wait several minutes
before he could conclude] a member of the
Bar of Centre county and a Democrat “who
believes in the principles of true Democracy
which are enduring, because they are right,
and invincible because they are just.”
Mr. Fortney presented his man in a
manner that went far toward making
bim additional friends and his speech
was warmly seconded by ex-Congress-
man Sowden, of Lehigh. The others
were all placed in nomination by their
constituents and the balloting began.
FIRST BALLOT FOR JUDGES,
After considerable wrangling it was
decided that delegates be allowed to
vote for Superior judge nominees, eith-
er individually or through the chair-
man of the delegations. The taking
of the vote tegan at 4.58 o'clock and
the first ballot was concluded at 6.30.
It was announced a half later as fol-
lows: Judge Christopher Magee, Al-
legheny, 193; Judge James N. Ermen-
trout, Berks, 20; ex-Judge Augustus
S. Landis, Blair, 98; ee Harman
Yerkes. Bucks, 349; W. Horace Rose,
Cambria, 39; Calvin M. Bower, Cen-
tre, 143 ; Charles S. McCormick, Clin-
ton, 22; Roger Sherman, Crawford,
58; Levi B. Alricks, Dauphin, 33;
Charles H. Noyes, Warren, 293 ;
James S. Moorehead, Westmoreland,
313; Robert McMeen, Juniata, 89;
Peter P. Smith, Lackawanna, 262;
Judge Henry J. McCarthy, of Phila-
delphia, 110; ex Judge Theodore F.
Jenkins, Philadelphia, 57; Judge O.
P, Bechtel, Schuylkill, 240; Joseph
C. Bucher, Union, 115; Judge Mich-
ael Arnold, Philadelphia, 1; ex-Su.
preme Court Justice Samuel Gustine
Thompson, Philadelphia, 1.
Messrs. Yerkes, Moorhead, Smith,
Noyes and Bechtel were declared to be
nominated, and auother ballot was
taken to select the sixth nominee.
Chairman Garman had much difficul-
ty in controlling the delegates while
while the additional ballot was being
taken, and Judge Magee's nomination
was announced at 8.30 o'clock. Two
minutes afterward the counvention ad-
journed sine die.
The convention was one of the larg-
est that has ever been held in the his-
tory of the party. Perfect harmony
marked its every proceeding, except
when personalities were indulged by
speakers who were promptly called
down. There was no bossto dictate
orrule. The delegates ran the coun-
vention themselves and did it in a
most creditable manner. The gather
ing was one of representative men
from all parts of the State and a glance
at its intelligent composition was all
that was needed to do honor to Demo-
cracy.
Mr. Bower would have been nom-
Jinated had it not been for a most un-
fortunate circumstance. After the first
ballot, when five nominees had a ma-
jority of the votes there were only two
prominent candidates in the field, viz:
Bower, cf Centre, and Magee, of Alle-
gheny. Bower, stood next to Judge
Magee in number of votes and the
country people said that he was their
only hope. So one after another all
were withdrawn until only Magee and
Bower were left. The roll was called
under the previous rule of letting each
chairman cast the vote of his delega-
tion unless a separate poll was de-
manded, but when Philadelphia was
reached, a wrangle began. Delegate
' Wilhere said the delegation had de.
i cided to cast 83 votes for Magee and
i one for Bower. This would certainly
i nominate Magee, and the Bower men
; went wild with excitement. The con-
{ vention was a ecene of the greatest
' possible confusion.
| Half the delegates left in the hall,
| many having gone when they got their
{ candidates nominated, were on their
feet at once shouting and gesticulating
and business came to a practical etand-
still. Finally it was decided to begin
at the beginning again and call the
name of each delegate singly. This
was done, amid continued confusion
Judge Magee was nominated by a vote
of 170 to 142. While this vote was a
quorum of the convention, which con-
tained 454 delegates, Judge Magea did
not receive a majority of the votes of
the delegates elected.
Thus it will be seen that Mr. Bower
lost many votes through bis friends de-
sire to have the manner of balloting
changed. Those who had voted as
delegations for him had voted more peo-
ple than were really present and when
it came to a rising, individual poll he
lost considerably. But of all the candi-
dates in the convention none seemed
nearly as popular as Mr. Bower. He
had friends everywhere and it was only
a combination of most unfortunate cir-
cumstances that caused his failure to be
placed in nomination.
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The Bellefonte delegation seemed to
own everything in Williamsport.
When the second party arrived in that
place, Tuesday night, they were met by
two trolley cars which they soon filled
up and rode all over the city with the
Clearfield and Undine bands aboard.
The former had gone down to boom
Judge Krebs, but upon his withdrawal
gracefully turned in to help the Bower
campaign. There can be no doubt of
his having been the choice of a majority
of the delegates. We congratulate Mr.
Bower on the impression he made on
on such a representative gathering of
Democrats.
Trains for the Granger Picnic.
The following schedule has been ar-
ranged for the accommodation of those
who desire to attend the Patrons’ Pic-
nic, Centre Hall, Pa., September 14 to
21. The schedule is good for Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday, September
18, 19 and 20, when tickets will be sold
at one fare for the round trip.
EASTWARD. Poly AM, ALM.
Bellefonte. 515 1015 750
Axemann.. 22 1022 758
Pleasant G. 26 1026 8 05
Dale Summit. 536 10 36 8 21
Lemont,........ 541 10 41 § 32
Oak Hall...... «545 1045 8 37
Linden Hall........co.o0osr0eern.es5 51 20151 8 42
Centre Hall (Grange Park)....6 05 11 05 8 55
WESTWARD. A.M. P.M. P.M. P.M.
Centre Hall (Gr. Pk.).....9 10 330 630 9 00
Linden Hall.....ceeereeireoe 925 347 648 918
Heese «930 353 655 925
358 700 930
403 706 936
415 718 943
419 722 954
425 73010
ain leaving Bellefonte at 10.15
a. g will also be run on September 16th and
17th.
Westward. Eastward
AN. P. M.
§ 55.Lv.c. onion SUNDUYY Ar.9 55 ....
9 03..... ..Northumberland........ 945...
tr MoHian 08. 980 ...
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——The Star bicycle club, of Altoona,
will be here to-morrow on their way to
Penn’s Cave.
—W. H. Noll and J. C. Mulfinger
ably represented Pleasant Gap at the
State Convention, on Wednesday.
—Democrats are happy. They have
reason to be. A convention like Wed-
nesday’s is not often read of.
——The season will open at Garman'’s,
on Monday night, September 16th, with
the brilliant musical comedy, ‘‘Money
Order.”
—A. G. McLaughlin, of Coburn,
shipped three car loads of Walnut logs
to Baltimore last week. Consignments
of walnut timber from this county are
very small.
——Superb weather and the novelty
of a barbecue attracted about 800 peo-
ple to the Knights of the Mystic chain
picnic, at Hecla park, yesterdey. The
roasting of the ox was begun on Wed-
nesday night and by noon yesterday it
was done to a turn.
——The peach sociable, Tuesday
eve ning, given by the Epworth League
to the members and friends of the
Methodist church. whohad lived a half a
century or more, was such a pleasant
affair that it was hard to tell who had
the better time, the older people, who
were taken to the church in carriages or
their entertainers. Rev. Rue set the
ball a rolling by a cordial merry wel-
coming. F. W. Crider, whose birthday
it was, was obliged to speak for himself
in answer to the good-natured jesting.
Catharine Harshberger and Robert
Crosthwaite both members of the church
in this place for more than fifty years,
recalled incidents of the long ago. Re-
freshments and music were in abun-
dance, and among the older people, who
were present, were Mr. and Mrs. James
Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs, Philo Ward
and Mrs, Rebecca Derr.
A GREAT REUNION OF THE VETER-
ans.—There were easily two thousand
people at Hunter's Park, last Saturday,
to enjoy the annual reunion snd picnic
of the Centre county Veteran's associa-
tion. The day dawned most auspicious-
ly and the beautiful morning had as
much to do with attracting the large
crowd to that pretty resort as the extra
efforts the committee had put forth to
make it the best reunion ever held.
It was by long odds the best one.
Notwithstanding the intermittent show-
ers that seemed to chase every one un-
der cover as soon as they would venture
out during the afterncon. All day
long the State College and Coleville
bands vied with Jim Whittaker’s drum
corps in making music for the ‘boys in
blue’’ and their friends.
At noon ex-Governor Beaver called
the meeting of the association to order
and appointed the following committee
on officers for the ensuing year: Dr.
Theo. S. Christ, of College; W. H.
Shultz, of Boggs: George Louer, of
Half-moon, J. R. Pheasant, of Howard;
H. K. Miller and S. H. Williams, of
Bellefonte, and W. C. Patterson, of
State College. Then a committee of
thirteen, selected from various parts of
the county, was appointed to decide up-
ona meeting place for next year. Af-
ter that the meeting adjourned for din-
ner.
That was the happiest part of the day
for many of them. There were lots of
good things to eat and every one was
just the personification of cordial hospi-
tality. It seems that the old soldiers
and their wives study this accomplish-
ment more than they do any other, for
certain it is that no one ever feels him-
selfa stranger at one of their gatherings.
After dinner the meeting was con-
vened again and business was taken up
where it had been left off. The com-
mittee on officers reported as follows :
President, Gen. James A. Beaver ; vice
presidents, Geo. M. Boal and W. C.
Patterson ; secretary, W. H. Musser ;
treasurer, John Hamilton. They were
all unanimously elected. The commit-
tee on place of meeting next year re-
ported in favor of Hecla Park, and it
was so voted.
Speech making was next in order.
Ex-Auditor General D. M. Gregg, of
Reading, spoke first. He was followed
by Dr. Geo W. Atherton, President of
The Pennsylvania State College ; Prof,
John Hamilton, financial agent of the
College ; Robt. A. Cassidy, of Canton,
Ohio, who +hinks we can’t get along in
Centre county without his being at all
the big Methodist and soldier turnouts,
and he is right, too ; Geo. T. Michaels, of
Lock Haven, and others. The speech-
es were all in a happy vein, adapted
to the occasion and frequently brought
out hearty cheers. The following reso-
lutions were then presented and unani-
mously adopted after which the meeting
adjourned to meet next year at Hecla
park.
“The Veteran Club of Centre county, in an-
nual meeting assembled, in view of the death
of Hon. A. G. Curtin, an honorary member of
the Club, on the 7th of October last, and in
view of the action of the Club at its last meet-
ing in reference to an effort to securea Sol-
dier's Monument in Centre county, and in
view of the changed conditions which now
confront us, in reference thereto, by reason of
the death of Gov. Curtin, and of late legisla-
tion in reference to soldier's monuments,
hereby places upon record its deliberate judg.
ment in reference to the importance and the
desirability of the erection of a statue to per -
petuate the memory of Hon. Andrew G. Cur-
tin, the War Governor of Pennsylvania, in
Bellefonte.
“We appeal to every soldier in Pennsylvania
toaid in the erection of such a monument.
We invoke the co-operation and assistance of
Grand Army Posts and other Veteran Organi-
zations. We pledge ourselves to an immedi.
ate and determined effort to a successful re-
sult in reference thereto; and, in order to
contribute “our share towards the erection
thereof, we do hereby appropriate out of funds
in the hands of the Treasurer the sum of Five
Hundred ($300.00) dollars, and direct the of-
flcers of the Club to subscribe toward the Cur-
tin monument fund.”
The rest of the day was spent in try-
ing to get in out of the wet, as it rained
at intervals of a very few minutes, but
then the picnic would not have been
complete unless the ducking went with
it. .
neon
Four new names were enrolled on the
association register during the day.
The State College band made a strik-
ing appearance’in a new uniform, con.
sisting of red coats, with plenty of gilt
lace, blue trousers and caps. With bet-
ter instruments than their old ones were
it was little wonder that they surprised
every one with their pretty music.
The Coleville band played well and
maintained thc reputation it early
earned for itself.
——It was slightly out of season, but
none the less enjoyable, the leap-year
dance given in the armory here by some
of the young ladies of the town last
night. = Chappell’s Williamsport or-
chestra furnishod the music. The idea
was carried out even to the girls asking
the boys to go, asking, them for dances
and paying all the bills.
——The Pennsylvania State College
opened Wednesday morning with a
larger attendance than the institution
has ever known. The Junior class, hav-
ing refused to make up a disputed exam-
ination in history, has not been admitted
as yet, though all of the members are at
the College.
DEATH OF THE LAST OF REMARKA-
BLE Twins.—On Wadnesday of last
week the people of Unionville laid to
rest, in the Union cemetery at Dix
Run, the remains of John Alexander;
by the side of his wife, Martha, who
preceded him some five years ago,
Mr. Alexander always enjoyed exce!-
lent health-till within the last two
years, when he had a stroke, which
rendered him in a great measure help-
less, as well as causing a mental decline
to such an exterit as to be at times
somewhat childish, so that precautions
were taken frequently to prevent his
doing an injury to himself.
Regardless of all precautions, “taken
for his care and safety, he raised the
window of his bedroom, recently, and
crawled “out on a front porch roof from
which he fell, a distance of some ten
feet, to the ground, where he was found
by his son-in-law and daughter, Dr.
end Mrs, VanValin, at 3 a. m.
At the time he did not seem to be
hurt, neither did he seem to realize
what had taken place, but in a few days
he began to show symptoms of distress
which increased to the end which took
place early Monday morning, Sept. 2ad.
REMARKABLE TWINS,
1t seems impossible, as well as incom-
plete, to refer to the life and death of
Jobn Alexander, without mentioning,
in conjunction, the name of the late ex-
sheriff Geo. Alexander, the twin brother,
who died Sept. 7th, 1892.
They were the sons of Joseph Alex-
ander, and were horn at the old home-
stead, now the John H. Stover place,—
past eighty-three years ago and al-
though Mr. Alexander had other boys
in the family, the twins George and
John were known as the ‘‘Alexander
boys” all through life.
It is a question if Penna. history can
furnish another case of so much simi-
larity. They were the same height,
same weight, same build and general
appearance in dress, shaved alike,
talked, walked, and looked alike.
During their visit to the centennial,
in 1876, John went into a barber shop
one morning to get shaved ; within an
hour George entered the same shop and
took the chair ; the barber laid down
his razor in astonishment, saying : “I
have barbered for twenty years, but I
have never shaved a man twice in one
hour before.” When George was sheriff,
in 1861-64, a great many persons would
offer money to John as payment on of-
ficial fees, and, in fact many of our peo-
ple here at home were never able to dis-
tinguish them. In 1838, John was
married to Martha Blair, by the Rev.
| Jas. Lynn, of Bellefonte, about the
same time George was first married to
Eliza’ McEwen and upon her death he
married Mrs. Fannie Musser, formerly
Ralston.
Having learned the cabinet-making
aud carpenter trade with their brother,
William, they took up the work of con-
tracting on such work as churches,
schools and other buildings. In 1843
they built the large school house for
Bellefonte, on the hill near the location
of the present jail. In 1845 they each
bought a farm in Bush’s Hollow, now
known as the Wm. Resides and Wm.
Spotts farms, where they farmed and
lumbered till 1860, when George be-
came sheriff of the county, at the end
of which time they disposed of their
real estate and entered the mercantile
business in Unionville, which they con-
tinued for ten years when they retired
to private life.
THE ALEXANDERS IN POLITICS.
Politically they were identified with
the “old line Whigs’ till the formation
of the Republican party, in 1856, when
they became members of said party and
remained in the same, till they espoused
the cause of the ‘‘green back’ system,
till finally, in 1880, they became fully
identified with the Democratic party
and remained thus till they died.
They were men of the highest grade
of moral character and were known as
such through life, but not until 1890
did they associate themselves with the
Presbyterian communion in which
faith they died.
Religious services were conducted at
the house by the Rev. King, of Miles-
burg, and he was borne to the grave by
six of his early associates, one being a
school mate : viz. Wm. Boggs, Thomas
Watson, Peter H. Bush, Henry Spotts,
Wm. Spotts and David Spots. C.
SALE OF FINE BLOODED CATTLE. —
Those who attend the Grangers picnic,
at Grange Park, Centre Hall, on next
Friday, will have an opportunity of
purchasing, or looking at, if they do
not care to invest, the finest lot of Hol-
stein and Jersey cattle ever brought to
Centre county. The herd includes 12
Holstein cows, 7 Holstein balls, 11
heifers and calves of the same breed
and 15 head of fine Jerseys. They were
all caretully selected in New York State
stock farms and will be offered at pub-
lic sale next Friday on the picnic
grounds.
If you are interested at all in fine cat-
tle you should make it a point to be at
the picnic during the week to see this
herd as it will be on exhibition there
until the day of the sale, Messrs.
Wm. B. Mingle and D. J. Meyer, will
have charge of the sale.
=
MARRIAGE Li1CENsEs.— Following is
the list of marriage licenses granted by
orphans’ court clerk, G. W.* Rumber-
ger, during the past week :
William F. Knoft, of Oak Hall, and
Edith L. Meyer, of Pleasant Gap.
Sylvanus G. Richards, and Minnie
Morris, both of Sandy Ridge.
C. O. Peterson, of Staten Island, N .
Y., and Angeline Decker, of Lemont.
H. A. McKinney, and Mary Miles,
both of Port Matilda.
James Currie, and Catharine Davi-
son, both of Cooper Twp., Clearfleld Co.
Egnoc Milton, and Clara Juraiski,
both of Gordon Heights.
Diep oF ApPoPLEXY. — Suddenly
stricken with appoplexy Mrs. J. M.
Stamm died at her home, in Millheim,
last Friday, before medical assistance
could be summoned.
Her death was a particularly sad one
since there was no one with her when
she was taken ill except her two
children. Dr. Stamm, her husband,
had previously started to drive to Mer-
cer county where he jntended looking
up a place to locate. When his wife
died he could not be found and a daugh-
ter, who lives in Mercer county, could
not be informed of her mother’s death.
Dr. Stamm passed through here, on
Monday night, on his way to Millheim,
and reached home in time to see his
dead wife. Her remains were interred
at Boalsburg Wednesday.
Deceased would have been 50 years
old on the 28rd of this month. She
was a member of the Reformed church
and very much admired for her noble,
christian character. =
THE END oF CourT.—Our account
of last week’s court proceedings con-
cluded with the case of S. H. Musser,
agent for Adriance, Platt & Co. vs. Al-
fred Keen, of Penn township, to recov-
er for a second hand binder that had
been gold to the defendant and wouldn’t
work. He refused to pay for it. The
verdict returned Friday morning was
for the defendant.
The work of the week was concluded
in the following order :
N. Bierly vs. John Mills and G. H.
Lyman, suit to recover on a grain crop.
John Mills was a tenant on Bierly’s
property in Boggs township, and a dis-
pute arose over the grain crop. Ver-
dict for the defendant.
Abraham Halderman vs. John Tay-
lor, of Potter township. Halderman
loaned Taylor $100 and when he went
to Taylor for & receipt for the money
for the entry of the note, Halderman
says Taylor made the receipt for $101.25
instead of $1.25. Mrs. Taylor and
daughter testified that $101.25 were
peid. Halderman’s testimony was that
he only received $1.25. In the face of
this contradictory evidence the jury
found in favor of Taylor.
Administrators of Martin McGowan
vs. Mary J Donovan, This was a dis-
pute in regard to the validity of a signa-
ture on a bond. Verdict for defendant,
Moshannon Lumber Co. vs. Altoona
& Philipsburg railroad. A dispute as
to lumber bill. Verdict, a compromise
at $3,376.15.
MR. FosTER PREDICTS STORMS FOR
THE GRANGER’S PrcNic WEEK. —“My
last bulletin gave forecasts of the storm
wave to cross the continent from 8th to
12th, and the next will reach the Pacific
coast about the 12th, cross the west of
Rockies country by close of 15th, great
central valley 15th to 17th, eastern
States 18th. This will be one of the
most notable storms of the year and
will include a dangerous tropical burri-
cane. 2
The interested weather observer
should carefully note that the tropical
hurricanes and our transcontinental
storms belong to entirely different sys-
tems. The former move around the
centre of the north Atlantic ocean, the
the eastern coasts of the United States
lying in their pathway. The other sys-
tem of storms moves around the earth
between 80 and 65 of north latitudé
and consequently crosses the North
American continent from west to east.
The paths of the tropieal hurricanes
and the transcontinental storms run to-
gether on the Atlantic coast and they
are antagonistic, sometimes destroying
each other more frequently one absorb-
ing the other and generally it is the
transcontinental storms that are ab-
sorbed by the tropical hurricanes.
For the above reasons chances are
that the particular storm first mentioned
above will not be severe on the" conti-
nent, but will be’ absorbed by the tropi-
cal hurricane. This view is not conelu-
sive, however. =. :
The safest policy is to be on the look-
out everywhere from the 14th to the
20th and take no unnecessary risk on
land or water. Within this period tele-
graphic reports will indicate where the
storms will probably spend the greatest
force. Shipping interests on the lakes
and near the Atlantic coast can save
serious destructions of property by
keeping near a safe harbor from 14th to
20th, and pleasure boating excursions
ghould be entirely abandoned.
The warm wave will cross the west
of Rockies country about 13th, great
central valleys 17th, eastern States 19th.
The cool wave will cross the west of
Rockies country about 16th, great cen-
tral valleys 18th, eastern States 20th.”
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