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Bellefonte, Pa., Feb. 21, 1896.
P. GRAY MEEK, - = =
“Epi1TOR.
Hastings Shown Up By a Republican
Organ.
Tte Evening Telegraph, Philadel
phbia’s leading Republican afternoon
publication, unmercifully berates Gov-
ernor Hastings for surrendering to
QuAY and endorsitg the hoom that has
been started in support ot the Boss's
presidential candidacy. There is no
form of language that the Telegraph does
not employ to make the Governor ap:
pear mean, base, cowardly, and gener:
ally contemptible.
While a!l that this Philadelphia Re. |
publican journzl says about Governor
HasTiNGs may be true, it hardly be-
comes it to appear against him ae such
a sweeping accuser. There was no
paper more zealous in support of his
election 28 Governor, when it knew, or
ought to have known, that he would
turn out to be exactly the kind of ex
ecutive officer that he has proven him-
gelf to be, and is charged with being,
by the journal that has changed its
hearty support into bitter condemna-
tion. It knew that all his public
qualifications were shams, and above
all it knew that the issue upon which
he was elected, and about which he
went through the State bellowing ea-
lamity, was the greateet fraud ever per-
petrated upon a gullible population,
yet 1t eupported bim in it, and had:
not a word of reproot at 3 time when
reproof would have been wore to its
credit.
It cannot
time the Telegraph was amoung the fore-
most of Republican joarsals in advo
cating the election of Hastings, it did
pot know ‘that his reputation was
based upon ar utterly false conception
of Lis true character; that he bad
traded upon borrowed capital and
strutted in false plumage; that he was
only a Falstaffian soldier, and a very
poor one at that, in war and politics;
that he was oue of the weakest
and most unreliable ot that
he had wvever manifested a single
attribute of real leadership ; that his
mental endowments were woefully defi-
cient, and that left to himself and his
own meagre resourceg, on the stump,
in the cabinet, in the executive
chamber, or in the political council
room, he would speedily be revealed as
a moet poverty stricken man, mentally
and morally.”
This is the character which the Gov-
eroor now presents to this Philadelphia
Republican journal. Is it possible
that it was not sufficiently intelligent
to bave known what his real charac-
ter was at the time when its columns
were advocating his election and sup-
porting the fraudulent issues upon
which he attained the gubernatorial
position ?
While it is not our business to
either admit, or dispute the truth,
of what the Evening Telegraph says
about Governor HastINGS we canvot
approve the reason that has brought
its censure down so severely upon him.
There is no appearance of its being
evoked by the general profligacy of his
administration and his faithless be-
trayal of the interests of the people
‘who put him in office by an unprece-
dented majority ; but the excoriation
has been incited by his having shifted
his factional connection from one
wing of a corrupt party to another. If
Hastings had stuck to the hog Com-
bine and not crawled back to the feet
of the Boss that bad been so recently
kicking him, the Evening Telegraph,
perhaps, would not have been provoked
into telling what it now does about his
general character and conduct.
mean ;
The Sham Investigation.
fe
It is said that the Senate investiga-
ting committee, through which it was
expected that the rottenness of munici-
pal government would be exposed and
reform brought about, has suspended
operations because of the exhaustion
ofdunds needed to keep it going. The
funds, however, held out lovger than
the public confidence in the investiga.
tion, which became exhausted long
ago. Bo
There was never a more deliberately
intended fraud than this investigating
committee has proven itgelf to be, but
it could not have been ctherwise, con-
sidering that it was instituted by Quay
for the pretended purpose of reform.
Quay and reform sre entirely in com-
patible. I. was a great joke to bring
them iu connect ion with each other.
In ite work at Philadelphia the only
purpose of the committee was to show
up the iniquities of the hog combine,
without any object of general reform ;
but since the hcgs defeated the Quay
ITEs at the recent elections it is 0 be
the investigators will |
expected that
qut their pretense and disband.
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be believed that at the!
In Explanation.
the 7th icst. under the head of “Might
| In an article in the WATCHMAN of
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{ Have Been Worse,” and intended as a
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| criticism of judge YERKES' commenda~—
| tion of the work of the district attor-
| ney’s office in Philadelphia, there ap-
| peared a paragraph severely, and, in
| view of since ascertained facts, unfairly
| reflecting upon the manageme nt .of
| that office. In it was charged
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¢ ‘That the records of the very court over
which judge YERKES presided, show that an
indictment, found by a grand jury against a
police officer for ‘‘criminally assaulting
alittle girl,” has been pigeon-holed
in the district attorney's office for over
five years; ~ that other indictments
found by grand juries against assessors
forthe fraudulent registration of voters and
against others for false registration and pad-
ding the registry lists, have been virtually
set aside by the failure of the district attor-
ney to do his duty; that election officers who
have flagrantly and openly violated the elec’
tion laws go about that city unmolested and
without fear of prosecution, and that to-day
there are more uncaught and unpunished
criminals, within the city of Philadelphia and
within the reach of the power of this same
district attorney than in any city on this co n-
tinent.
prosecution of an indicted policeman
"were based upon the sworn testimony
of witnesses before the Senate investi—
gating committee, and that of failure
to promptly presecute arraigned elec—
tion officials upon the admitted tact
that there are numerous caees of the
kind awaiting the action of the public
prosecutor, there are other facts and
circutnstances conuecied with these
cases that place them in a differ
ent light, and convinces us that =
grievous wrong has been done the die—
trict attorney in making these charges
in the manner they have been made:
It is true that the Warcaman knew
nothing of the facts given in connec—
tion herewith, at the time of publica~
tion of these charges, but having com-
mitted the error of assailing the offi-
cial work of a public officer, without a
tull knowledge of all the facts con:
nected with the matter in question, its
own reputation for truth 2nd fairness,
as well as justice to the accused
official, demands that reparation
of the wrong, and acknowledgment of
the error, be made as public and as
broad as were the charges. And this
we unhesitatingly do by giving the full
facts, as far as we have been able to as
certain them, relating to the cases to
which reference was made.
In the case of the indicted police
officer, toe tacts and records show
that, in place of neglectfully de-
laying the prosecution for a period
of five years, upon four occasions
this cace was called for trial but each
time continued at the request of the
attorney for the prosecution ; that in
several other instances continuance
was had at the solicitation of the
prosecutor, who afterwards, without
the knowledge of the district attorney:
lett the State and was not to be found.
This c ase has been disposed of within
the past few weeks, the officer being
acquitted and the district attorney,
fully and satisfactorily to the court,
explaining the cauee of the long delay
in getting it to trial.
As tthe other allegations that in-
dictments against election officers
and registration assessors have not
been prosecuted because of the failure
of the district attorney to do his duty ;
it is shown by the records, to the credit
of the officials, that many cases of this
character have been successfully prose-
cuted. And while it is admitted that in
a number of instances cases of thie kind
are beld up it is claimed to be because
of insufficient evidence to convict and
for the reason, as given by an attache
of the office, that to prosecute and
have acquitted men who are actually
believed to be, but could not, under
the ‘technicality of the law, be proven
guilty, would work a greater wrong to
the community than delaying, for the
time, the presentation of the indict-
ments against them.
These are the facts as we find them.
They are facts which the public has a
right to know, and which this paper,
upon the first opportunity after ascer-
taining them, cheerfully gives in jus-
tice to the district ‘attorney of Phila-
delphia and his assistants, as well as to
its own sense of right and fairness.
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Pattison and the Presidency.
The Democratic state committee at
its meeting last week, voiced the senti-
| ment of a great majority of Pennsylva-
| nia Democrate, when it formally an-
{ pounced iteelf in favor of the nomina-
| tion ot Gov- Parrison for president.
While it is not known that the ex-Gov- |
ernor is an expected or willing aepir-
ant for the position, it is a certain fact
{ that the party could not nominate a
stronger man than the distinguished
| Pennsylvania Democrat, and that if
' his name were presented to the conven-
"tion it would be ae much of a compli-
ment to the State as to him whom it
has eo often honored.
Ex-Governor ParrisoN stands in
high repute in all parts of the Union.
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W hile these ct arges of delay in the ;
He has won a national reputation, not
only by the fact of ins having been
twice elected Governor of a State in
which the Republican majority is
usually overwhelming, but also by the
spotless character of his official eor-
duct and his fidelity to the interests of
the State in contrast to the =accus-
tomed profligacy of Republican admin.
ietration in Pennsylvania.
It is not deflnitely known whether
the ex-Governor is stirred by Presiden-
tial ambition, a laudable feeling in
those who are competent and worthy
of that high position, but it cannot be
questioned that the party could not
nominate a stronger candidate, nor
one whoke election would fill the presi-
dential office with a more trustworthy
incumbent, His career in the guber-
natorial office of Pennsylvania could
| be taken a@ a forecast of what his con-
, duct would be with higher national du-
| ties imposed upon him.
: Disastrous Fire in a Troy N. ¥. Factory,
825 Employees in a Panic. Twenty May Have
Been Killed.
It was just thirty minutes before
closing bour in Stettheimer & Co's.
shirt waist factory, on River street,
and the 330 girls and women were
working rapidly tc finish up. In the
cutting room on the fifth floor 150
girls were closing up their days as-
signments and preparing to leave
when the whistle blew.
Lilly Kreiger, who was working
near a machine, called a small boy to
light the gas over ber work. The boy
struck a match and threw the burning
stub to the floor. It struck a pile of
oily rags and in aa instant the girl was
enveloped in flames. With her
clothes and hair burning ehe rushed to
the window and in aun instant the room
became a struggling, shrieking wass
of humanity, filling the windows, the
fire-escapes and the cnly stairway.
Pushing and turning in narrow corri-
dors to find a sister or mother or
friend, the number in the exiis aug-
mented every minute, and girls and
women fought for their lives to escape.
With rare presence of mind, Police-
man Farrall, who was on the street,
seeing that in the panic a number were
liable to jump, let down the awning
over the entrance. Barely was it
down when two or three forms came
flying from the filth and sixth stories,
and bouncing from the awning fell to
the sidewalk.
From the outside of the high build.
ing, the firet notice of impending dis-
aster was the sight of a body of girls
as they rushed out upon the fire escapes
from the windows, those who were
more fortunate crowding out the en-
trance. Within twenty minutes after
the fire started there were three dead
women laid upou the floor of an ad-
joining store, and at least a dozen
burned and maimed girls and women
taken tothe hospital or to their homes,
placed at twenty.
About 8 o'clock the firemen heard
shrieks coming from the two-story
building on the south. They discov
ered an Italian peddler, named Jogeph
Rossi, who kept a etand io front of the
building, picioned by the legs, under a
heavy beam. Three policemen start.
ed to assist him, and with a fireman
worked for three quarters of an hour.
They had just about gotten him loose
when with a roar the great south walls
came crashiog down, and the specta-
tors saw the brave little group buried
from view. When the smoke and
dust had cleared, there was a rush of
willing workers, and in a little while
the men were taken out. All were in-
jured, and had to be removed to the
hospital. The Italian will probably
die.
THE DEATH LIST WILL BE AUGMENTED,
Superintendent Williard, of the po-
lice force, eays that he saw a number
of girls at windows who never came
out, but fell back into the flames.
One fireman who was working from
the rear saw three girls with their
arms wound tightly about each other
turn in their frenzy and jump back in-
to the flames. Some of the women
who escaped tell of stumbling over
prostrate bodies and are positive that
a score of girls perished. The girls
who did escape live in various suburb-
an places and hurried away, so that
until the roll is called in the morning
the exact number of miseing will not
be known.
Lottie and Nellie Hull, sisters,
grasped each other tightly by the
hands and started down the stairs from
the sixth story. At the landing of the
fifth floor they encountered a wall of
flame and smoke. Nellie had on only
her corsets and skirt, having been
making her toilet. Lottie, who was
also partially dressed, threw her drees
over Nellie’s face, and together they
went through the flames. Lottie’s
bair was burned completely off when
she reached the sidewalk, but Nellie
was burned orly about her bare arms.
They were taken home.
The total loss by the fire is $250,000
to $300,000, with about $100,000 in-
surance. At least 500 people are
thrown out of employment. The fire-
men worked to-night with the ther
mometer down below zero and suffered
very much:
The Fellow out of Whom the Most Can
Be Had.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Senator Quay says that if he should
determine to be a candidate for the
presidency he would make the an’
nouncement himself. But he doesn’t
mind having Pennsylvania tie its dele-
gation to a Quay candidacy. If any
trading is to be done at St. Louis the
fellow that can reach into his pocket
tor sixty-four votes will occupy a posi-
tion of advantage. Pennsylvania be-
ing for Quay, it becomes at once a
matter of interest to know : Who is
Quay for? :
Quoe estimate of the dead has been
Senate Will Not Budge.
Refuses to pass the Tariff Bill and Thereby
Displeases the House.—Makes the Members An-
gry.~ Chances for Re-election of some of them
Jeopardized — May Also Kill off Reed’s Boom.
WasHiNGgTON, Feb, 17.—The anger
of the house Republicans at the Sen-
ate’s refusal to take up and pass the
the tariff bill increases hourly. The
speaker's immediate friends are es
pecially bitter. They realize that in-
tense diseatisfaction exists already on
the Republican side with Mr. Reed's
policy of cutting appropriations to the
bone. It the river and harbor bill fails
it will further increase the dissatisfac-
tion, and the speaker will come in for
the largest ehare of the blame. But
unless the tariff bill passes, thus giv-
ing the Republicans the chance of
claiming that they provided additional
revenues to meet the additional expeo-
ditures they wish to make, there cen
be no kelp forit. Even the Republi-
cans are not reckless enough to make
appropriations which it is plain the
treasury will not have funds to meet."
If the revenues are not increased, or,
rather, if a tariff bill is not passed
which the Republicans can assert will
increase the revenues, then ordinary
appropriations must be kept down to
the present basis, and extraordinary
ones, like the river and harbor bill,
must be lopped off. But this is a pro-
ject which Republican members gen
crally angrily decline to contemplate.
They want to make big appropriations.
They especially want to pass a big
river and arbor bill, if the President
is certain to veto it.
A large number of Republicans are
aware that a hard fight for renomina-
tion and re-election awaits them this
fall. To help them in this they must
makea good showing inthe way of
fat appropriations for river and harbor
improvements, public buildings, etec.,
in their districts. But they know the
house managers will not countenance
such appropriations unless the tariff
bill passes. Hence their anger at the
inaction of the Senate. They not only
want the tariff bill passed, but they
want it passed quickly, so that the ap-
propriatior bills they expect to get
their jobs id-——ihe river and harbor aud
sundry civil—-can be made up on the
basis of the increased revenues the Re-
publicans claim the tariff bill provides.
But the Senators are vot 80 anxious.
They do not have to stand for re-elec-
tion this fail.” Besides, they have
other fish to try. Some ot them: have
records to make on gilver. Others
think the failure of the tariff bill will
aid in killing off Reed as a Presiden.
tial candidate. To the latter the situa:
tion in the house is very satisfactory.
They knov Reed will get the cursing
for all that is done wroog or left un-
done, and he is the fellow they are
after. Meanwhile Reed's managers
are urging the house Republicans to
influence the Senate by every means
in their power to pass the tariff bill.
All the loBbyists in Washington are
engaged in the same work, because
small appropriations mean light pick-
ings for them. But the Senate doesn’t
budge.
Elections in Pennsylvania.
Hottest Fight for Years-—The Reformers elected
a Number of Pittsburg Councilmen, but the Re-
publicans Still Have a Working Majority in
Both Branches—In Allegheny Geyer, Repub-
publican, was Elected Mayor Without Opposi-
tion,
PirreBURG, Feb. 19.—The municipal
election yesterday resulted in victory
for the regular Republican ticket, after
the hottest fight known in this city for
years. Ford, Republican, for mayor,
had a majority of 1,452 over Guthrie,
the Democrat and Municipal League
candidate. For controller, Gourley,
who was elected three years agoon the
Reform ticket, was a candidate on the
regular ticket this year and was elected
by 496 majority.
The Retormers elected a number of
councilmen, but the Republicans still
bave a good working majority in both
branches.
In Allegheny, Geyer, Republican,
was elected mayor without opposition.
The eatire Republican ticket was also
elected.
Notwithstanding that the result of
the election, as given in these dis
patches, are compiled from the official
figuree sent in from the various dis:
tricts and ecem to be nearly accurate,
the Municipal League executive com-
mittee declares that the count is incom-
plete and incorrect, and has announced
its idtention to contest the election in
the courts.
The executive committee will hold a
meeting at the deague headquarters this
afternoon for the purpose of discussing
the situation and devising plans to pro-
ceed with the contest.
SCRANTON IS DEMOCRATIC.
Scranton, Feb. 19.—Reviaed returns
ot the election held here yesterday
show that the Democrats have elected
Bailey for mayor over Ripple, Repub-
lican, by a majority of 194; Boland
for treasurer cver Williams, Republi-
can, by 1,642 majority, and Robiuson
for controller over Widmyer, Republi-
can, by 1,165 majority, The Repub:
licens elect the three city assessors by
majorities ravgiag from 500 to 1,000.
The select council remains Republi-
can, the common council goes Dem-
ocratic and the school board has one
Republican majority.
It wag the hardest fought municipal
campaign ever know here, and much
partisan feeling was shown. The Re.
publican opposition to William Coan-
nell was largely respousible for the
Democratic success.
Carbondale went Democratic through-
out, O'Neill being elected mayor over
Carter, Republican, by 21 majority.
WILLIAMSPORT RETURNS.
WiLLiaMsPorT, Pa., Feb, 19.—Later
returns give Mauosel, Probibitionist,
348 plurality for mayor ; Quigel, Dem-
ocrat, 352 for city treasurer, and
George, Democrat, 975, for controller.
I'be Republicans elected the asseseors
and a majority of councils.
——Read the “WATCHMAN.
William H. Iams Likely to Die.
Bavriyorg, Feb. 19.—William H.
Iams, who gained wide nctoriety at
the time of the Homestead strike by
sce nsutordination, ending in his
being strung up by the thumbs, is at
the Maryland university hospital suf-
fering from a bullet wound in the
abdomen. The doctors: say he will
probably die. Iams returned to his
boarding house early this morning and
got into an altercation with an adjoin-
ing room lodger named Charles Arndt.
After ascuffle Arndt was thrown down
stairs. Returning to his room Arndt
cecured a revolver, and when Iams re-
turned to the attack he received a
bullet in the lower part ot the abdo-
men.
$10,000 in Bicycles Free.
The Philadelphia Press announces
that it will present any person—young
or old, man or woman, boy or girl—
who will comply with certain easy
conditions, with their choice of the
finest $100 bicycles manufactured.
The details of the offer can be found
in any issue of The Press. This jour-
nal never doee anything by halves, and
its proposition is therefore opea to all,
whether readers of The Press or not.”
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
© MARRIAGE LiceNsEs.—Following is
the list of marriage licenses granted by
orphans’ court clerk, G. W. Rumber-
ger,” during the past week :
Edward W. Harwood, of Philipsburg,
and Virgie M. Fink, of Chester Hill.
Frank L. Hoffman and Melissa May
Filer, both of Philipsburg.
John A. Stamm, of Oak Hall, and
Lucy E. Garner, of Lemont.
A House BURNED AT MILESBURG
YrsTERDAY.—James Heverly’s two-
story frame dwelling house, valued at
$1,000, on South Pike street, Milesburg,
caught fire from a defective flue shortly
before ncon, yesterday, and was totally
destroyed in less than an hour. Nearly
all of the household goods were saved
and the building was fully insured.
The new hook and ladder company
was on the scene early and did telling
work in the protection of adjoining
property. Such a thing as saving the
Heverly house was out of the question,
since the only water to be bad was that
carried from cisterns. This fact should
convince the new councilmen in Miles
burg that it would be the right thing to
grant a franchise to a company that is
anxious to incorporate a water works at
that place. For some time there has
been a company ready and willing to put
in an efficient plant, buts the privilege
kas been withheld. A town like Miles-
burg cannot afford to be behind How-
ard, State College, Centre Hall and
other places that have good public water
service.
Nothing adds more to the comfort of
the citizens or to facilities for fighting fire
than plenty of water—not to mention
the benfit from reduced insurance rates.
Milesburg should profit by yesterday’s
lesson and provide a water supply for
herself at once.
He Brokk His NECK IN FALLING. —
Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Rossman, who live
four miles above Madisonburg, in Gregg
township, bad a sad return from the
grange meeting at Spring Mills last Sat-
urday.
Together they left home during the
morning, but before going Mr. Ross-
man charged his twelve year old son,
Grover, with the care of the stock, at
the same time advising him to get ready
for his night feeding early eo that he |
would get done before dark. About
three o’clock the boy, a light hearted,
robust little fellow, started for the barn
and to his death. An hour later his sis-
ter noticed that the cows were not yet
uiied in’ so she sent s younger brother
out to tell Grover to doit. He ran to
the barn calling, but received no answer.
Then he went up into the barn floor
where he discovered the boy on his
knees and leaning against the partition
of the mow. After shaking him and
receiving no reply he ran back to the
house for his sister. She went out and
after repeated efforts to arouse her broth-
er realized that he was dead.
A long line was wrapped about his
shoulders while one end of it was tied
to a sill on the cross loft. The girl was
almost distracted. She was there alone
with her dead brother and several small
brothers and sisters who seemed not to
realize the awfulness of the eituaticn,
Fortunately a man passed at that time
and word was sent for the parents and a
doctor. Both came but life had been
extinct for some time. |
A jury was impaneled and decided he
hed come to his death by a fall from
the cross loft in which he had received a
broken neck by coming in contact with
a bay wagon that was standing on the
barn floor.
tion that the boy, after wrapping the
line about him climbed up the ladder
to make a swing, but bad fallen after
he tied the one end of his line. While
the circumstances might have pointed
to suicide the idea is scouted. He was
too young and happy to conteraplate
such a fate. That very morning he had
bad a wrestling match with his father
and tte home was known as cne in
which the children were considered first
in all things.
Another, and possibly more accurate,
account of this accident will be found
in our Spring Mills eorrespondence.
It is the general supposi--
——An express agent named Swab,
at Irvonis, left that place suddenly last
Wednesday and was arrested later in
Ohio. His accounts are short to the
amount of $1,600.
KiLLED BY A Horse's Kick. —Wil-
lie Houser, the 14 year old son of W. H.
Houser, of Grand Island, Neb., met
with a sad accident that resulted in his
death. On the morning of Feb. 4th,
Mr. Houser and son did up the chores
at the barn, after which his father told
Willie to turn ont-the horses while he
would take the milk to the house and
return to help him drive them to the
field. Mr. Houser returned in less than
five minutes to find Willie lying on the
ground, unconscious, and bleeding from
the head. He was carried to the house
and the best medical aid sent for. Up-
on examination it was found that the
top of the skull was badly fractured by
a horse kick. The skull was; immedi-
ately raised and a small loose piece was
removed. He laid in an® unconscious
condition from the morning of the
fourth until he quietly passed away at
9:30 on the evening of the 7th.
He was buried at Grand Island, Sun-
day, Feb. 9th,!and leaves a father,
mother, brother and three sisters to
mourn bis loss. He was a member of
the Alda methodist episcopal church,
and loved by all who knew him.
W. H. Houser and wife were residents
of Centre county, but in an early day
moved to Grand Island, Neb., where
they have resided since.
A MEMORABLE MEETING oF COUN-
ciL —The early. part of last Monday
night's council meeting did not differ
from those of preceding nights, but the
wind-up proved to be something that
will furnish a pleasant theme for the
retrospections of the sixteen gentlemen
who were there.
The meeting itself was not charac-
terized by theamount of business trans-
acted, for when adjournment time
came about all that bad been done was
the approving of bills to the amount of
$263.57. With all ofthe members pres.
ent ibe time of the session was nearly
all taken up in badinage. Two of the
members were in doubt as to the out-
come of the election mext day, their
councilmanic lives being in the bal-
ance, and they were the butt of all sorts
of raillery. President John C. Miller
was doing his best to hurry up the work,
as he bad made an engagement to go
w.th Mrs. Miller to a card party, later
in the evening, but all the dignity he
could command would not suppress the
members during that last session of
the year. Delays of every sort were
made, the business was blocked by the
most ridiculous propositions until the
president was in a. fair way to anger
when it was proposed that the two lone
Democrats should treat to an oyster
supper. With a readiness that almost
took the breath away they took up the
gauntlet that had been thrown down as
a joke, moved for adjournment and
headed Ceader’s saloon. The members
of the press who were there were invited
to go along. Never dreaming of such a
toing you can scarce imagine the presi-
dent’s surprise when, instead of an oyster
supper, he found himself beside one of
the daintiest banqueting boards ever
laid in the town. Even then the guest
of honor didn’t fully realize what it all
meant and it was not until after the
various courses on the menu had been
served and the after dinper talks began
that he fully comprehended the honor
that his fellow councilmen bad accorded
him.
The banquet was given as a parting
mark of esteem to president Miller,
who has left Bellefonte for his new
home, ‘“Rock-view,” in Benner town-
ship, where be will live and superintend
the Reynolds’ farms.
THE MENU.
Shrewsburys on the Half Shell.
Puree de Tomato.
Salted Wafers.
Roast Turkey. Cranberry Sauce.
Mashed Potatoes. Green Pease
Lettuce Mayonaise Dressing.
Roman Punch.
Oyster Patties.
Cold Ham.
Sweitzer Cheese.
Salted Almonds.
Chocolate ice cream. Vanilla ice cream,
Bisque. . Orange Ice.
ssogted Cakes) .
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The following gentlemen were pres-
ent : President Miller, members Wil-
liams, Keller, Valentine, Brachbill
Bueh, Brockerhoff, Gerberich, John Ar-
dell, an ex-president of council, mayor
W. E. Gray, and Newton Bailey of the
Magnet, Charles R. Kurtz of the Centre
Darou H. Harter of the Gazette
Charles E. Porworth of { ¢ News and
a representative of the Watchman,
Clerk of council, Isaac Mitchell, was
toast master.
~All the guests responded to toasts
that were proposed, tome of them
referring, in a happy vein 'to Mr.
Miller's great service to the town.
About the tartest thing that was
heard was a pithy rhyme gotten off
by H. C. Valentine member from the
North, The evening was delightfully
spent and it was mid-night before the
Olives.
Oranges.
party oroke up. c