Terms, 82.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., May 22, 1896.
P. GRAY WEBER, ©
Epitor.
William the Wobbler.
The decided advantage which the tariff
major is having over the other aspirants
for the Republican nomination is the cause
of great satisfaction and much exultation
among the uninformed votaries of a tariff
that robs them without being conscious of
it, but the prospect of the major being the
nominee of the party is beginning to give
uneasiness to a large number of Republican
businessmen who in regard to the currency
are. unable to discover ‘where he is at,”
and who would like to know on which side
of the fence he would jumpif a free silver
bill should be presented to him for his ap-
proval or his veto as President.
The more substantial class of Republicans
recognize the importance of the currency
as an issue in a presidential election, and
are not satisfied with McKINLEY’S wob-
bling position on the silver question.
Those who want the gold standard are not
willing to accept the assurance of somebody
else that the major is all right on that
point. It would render more satisfaction
and inspire more confidence if he should
say so himself.
past course that can be taken as a guarantee
that he is in. favor of what they consider
sound money. He has wobbled in most of
his views and actions when the currency
was in question, but his leaning has been
more frequently on the side of silver. He
voted for the BLAND dollar bill ; he sup-
ported JOHN SHERMAN’s silver purchase
act ; he made speeches in and out of Con-
gress in which he advocated the double
standard. Most of his declarations showed
his sympathy for the white metal, and by
no act or utterance did he indicate that if
the choice were left to him gold would
have the preference as the standard of
value.
Since he has become a presidential can-
didate and has seen that he would have to
do some hedging on his former expressions,
he has gotten off some glittering general-
ities intended to bear a gold construction,
such as that he favored the best kind of
money that the ingenuity of man could
desire, and that he wanted a system of cur-
rency that would make every dollar equal
in value to ever other dollar, but these ex-
pressions are indefinite and unsatisfactory,
since they can be used by. gold and silver
men alike, as each believes that his kind of
a dollar is as good as any other kind.
Notwithstanding the urgent demands
that are being made that the tariff major
should come down on one or the other side
of the fence on the currency question, he
retains his wobbling seat on the top rail.
Toy PLATT says he hasn’t mental capacity
enough to have a mind of his own on a
question like that of the currency, and that
his views are shaped entirely by his man-
agers. Tom REED pokes fun at him with
the remark that as he is unable to deter-
mine whether to be a gold bug or a silver
bug there is nothing else for<him.to be but
a straddle bug.
MCKINLEY’S position on the main issue
that will be presented in the campaign
should be anything but encouraging to
those who want to make him President of
the United States. Itis evident that he
can’t make up his mind or is afraid to ex-
press it, or else that he wants to practice
deception on a part of the American people
who have a right to know his views as a
presidential candidate.
Wobbling WILLIAM does not appear to
be the right kind of a man for the presi-
dential office in which decision of character
and directness of expression are requisite
qualifications. :
On Which Side the Trusts Are.
It is now estimated that a billion of dol-
lars ($1,000,000,000) is invested in mo-
nopolistic combinations. This is a con-
servative estimate of the amount of money
which the trusts and combines of that char-
acter have put into enterprises that are in-
tended to gouge the public and are con-
ducted in violation of anti-trust laws.
All of these combines have sprung up
under the fostering care of a highly protect-
ive tariff. They are the legitimate fruit
of MCKINLEY-ism, and every one will lend
its efforts to help restore a system under
which they originated and flourish ; and
they will all contribute to the fund that
will be needed to run a MCKINLEY cam-
paign.
There is not a class of our people that
‘has not suffered from the extortions of
these combinations. The poorer class par-
ticularly—the men who must earn their
living by their labor—have been their prin-
cipal victims. It will be this class that
will be called upon to help restore the Mc--
KINLEY tariff as something that will en-
sure them prosperity. No doubt many of
them will be deceived by such representa-
tions, but their folly will only lead them
into helping a measure which every trust
and monopolistic combination is interested
in restoring in order that there may be no
limit to their extortionate practices from
which the poorer class of people suffer the
most.
——Wherever you hear a voter say that
he won’t vote the ticket if his party de- |
clares for a ‘‘single gold standard,” or
that he is against his party if it favors the
‘‘free and unlimited coinage of silver,’’ put
him down as the kind of a Democrat who
don’t know what Democracy means. The
greatest tenet of Democracy, and the one
upon which all Republican government
must be based, is that which recognizes the
right of the majority to rule. This should
be the underlying principle with all ‘Dem-
ocrats.
—— Whatever might be said of its typo-
graphical excellence and the strength of its
editorial force the Philadelphia Times has
lately been giving surprising evidence of
weakness in its news departments. It has
been the unpleasant duty of the WATCH-
MAN, on a number of occasions, to correct
certain mis-statements made by the Times
in relation to occurrences in this section of
the State. But not until Monday did that
journal convince us that its news depart-
ments are not only misleading, but behind
the times as well. In the second column
of the front page of the Times, issue of May
18th, will be found a dated news article,
‘Old Flame Flared Up,’’ sporting a doub-
le head. It is taken, almost word for
word, from a local that appeared in this
paper exactly ten days before that date,
with the exception that the WATCHMAN
stated the fact that the wedding in ques-
tion had been consummated at Bordentown,
N. J., while the Zimes would have its
readers believe that the union of the old
lovers occurred in Bellefonte, when neither
of them have been here for years. It
would not have appeared so ridiculous had
the Zimes published the story on an inside
page, without date, but when what ought
to be a metropolitan daily gets nearly two
weeks behind a county weekly, things be-
come laughable.
re —————
——The coronation of the new Czar of
all the Russias, at Moscow, on Wednesday,
: . | brought gladness to the heart of many an
There is nothing in his | i
exile and prisoner, as well as to the tax
oppressed peasantry, many classes of whom
were relieved of arrearages. The corona-
tion of a Czar in Russia has always been the
occasion of amnesty being extended to all
classes ‘of prisoners and derelicts. Wed-
nesday’s royal event was no exception to
the rule.
——The recent dry weather will hardly
have had a back-setting effect on the green
pasture on which the circus sharp will
feed next Wednesday.
County Democracy—Primary Election
and County Convention.
—. The Democratic voters of Centre county will
meet at the regular places for holding the general
elections in their respective election districts, on
SATURDAY, JUNE 6th, 1896,
to elect delegates to the County Convention, at
which time they may vote instructions if they see
fit. Under the rules of the party the election will
open at 3 o'clock P. M. The delegates chosen at
the above stated time will meet in the court
house, in Bellefonte, on
TUESDAY, JUNE 9th, 1896,
at 12 o'clock noon, to nominate, two candidates for
Assembly, one candidate for Sheriff, one candi-
date for Treasurer, one candidate for Register,
one candidate for Recorder, two candidates for
County Commissioner, two candidates for County
Auditor, one candidate for Coroner, and one ecan-
didate for County Surveyor.
Said delegates, so chosen, will also, at the same,
time elect three conferees to the next congres-
ional caucus or conference of the 28th Congres-
sional District of which Centre county forms a
part : a chairman of the County Committee to
serve from the first day of January, 1897, to the first
day of January, 1898; and transact such other
business as the interests of the party may require.
APPOINTMENT OF DELEGATES,
The number of delegates to which each election
district is entitled, based upon the vote for Gov-
ernor in 1894, and as apportioned by the County
Committee, in 1895, is as follows :
Bellefonte, N. W 2 Haines, EPL 2
se S. WwW 3 t .P, 3
by WW. W 1 Half Moon 1
Centre Hall Bor 1 Harris 2
Howard te 1 Howard, seed
Milesburg ** 1 Huston, 1
Millheim 2 Liberty, ol
Philipsburg, 1st 1 Marion, eel
* . ndW 2 Miles, E. 1
* 3rd Vv......1 * M. 2
S. Philipsburg... 1 Ld Ww.
Unionville *¢ 1 Patton,
Benner, N. P.. 1 1 Penn,
£t K.P, 1 Potter XN:
Boggs, N. P 1 S
* EP. 1 | Rush, N.
$f wp, 2 . Ss.
Burnside .. 1 | Snow Shee, E.
College, E. P.. wl | “eX
ew, P ..1 | Spring, N.
Curtin v 1 i S.
Ferguson, E. P. 3 | te Ww,
fe W.P | ‘Taylor,
Gregg, XP | Union
La . Pb | Walker
£6 W.P. Worth,
Total. .:
The officers for holding the primary election on
the 6th of June, 1896, as determined by the Coun-
ty Committee at its last meeting on the 2nd inst., |
will consist of two assistants for each election dis-
trict chosen by the committeeman of such dis-
trict, and the following persons who are the mem-
bers of the County Committee, to-wit :
Bellefonte, N. W. J, C. Harper, Bellefonte.
S. W. Joseph Wise, ¢
£¢ W. W. Geo. Harman,
Centre Hall, Boro. J. Dauberman Jr., Centre Hall.
Howard ‘ W. R. Gardner, Howard.
““
Milesburg ‘“ Homer Carr, Milesburg.
Millheim ‘J. W. Stover, Millheim.
Unionville * W. H. Earon, Fleming.
8. Philipsburg, S. T. Johnston, Philips urg.
Philipsburg, 1st W., H. D. Rumberger, *
bt 2nd W., J. A. Walton, te
3rd W. F. K, White,
N. P. R. M. Henderson, Fillmore.
S. P. John Ishler, Bellefonte,
N. P. Henry Heaton, Milesburg, .
E. P. G. Hayes Lyman, Roland.
W. P. Joseph W. Follmer, Milesburg.
Burnside, Wm. Hipple, Pine Glenn.
College, X. P. I. J. Dreese, Lemont.
‘' W. P. John Corrigan, State College.
Curtin, Nathan J. McCloskey, Romola.
Ferguson, E. P. W. H. Fry, Pine Grove Mills.
¥ W. P. Jacob Harpster, Gatesburg.
Gregg, N. P. James P. Grove, Penn's Cave,
** E. P. James C. Condo, Penn Hall,
** W. P. John Smith, Spring Mills.
Haines, W. P. Samuel Beaver, Aaronsburg.
“ E.P. John J, Orndorl, Woodward,
Half Moon, David J. Gates, Stormstown.
Harris, Chas. A. From, Boalsburg. i
Howard Twp., A. M. Butler, Howurd.
Huston, Daniel Straw, Julian.
Liberty, W. H. Gardner, Blanchard.
Marion, Michael Zeigler, Walker.
Miles, EP Wallace I. Walker, Wolf™s Store.
“M. P. C. J. Crouse, Rehersburg.
‘“ W. P. Geo. W. Hazel, Madison urg.
Patton, Edward Marshall, Fillmore. . J
Penn, ‘Christ. Alexander, Coburn. y
Potter, N. P. Geo. H. Emerick, Centre Hall.
8. P. James B. Spangler, Tusseyville.
Rush, N. P. James B. Joop Philipsburg.
‘“ 8. P. Richard O'Neill, Powelton.
Snow Shoe, E. P. W. R. Haynes, Snow Shoe.
** _W. J. Kern, Moshanuon,
Spring, N. P, John 8, Yearick, Bellefonte,
‘8. P. W, H. Noll, Pleasant Gap.
W. P. Abraham Switzer, Bellefonte,
Taylor, Allen Hoover, Hannah.
Union, Samuel Emerick, Fleming.
Walker, A. L. Shaffer, Zion.
Worth, A. J. Johnson, Port Matilda.
H. J. JACKSON, N. B. SPANGLER,
Secretary. Chairman Democratic
County Committee,
Bellefonte, Penna., May, 18, 1896.
[The following rules intended for the official gov-
ernment of the party within the county, we pub-
lish for the information of the county chairman,
(who has evidently lost his copy if he ever pos-
sessed one) as well as for the benefit of the
Democratic voters,—Ep. Warcnmay.]
‘“
Benner,
““
“
Boggs,
“
1. The Democratic County Convention of Cen-
tre county shall be composed of one delegate for
every fifty Democratic votes polled at the presi-
dential or gubernatorial election next receding
the corivention. - The allotment of de egates to
the several election districts in the county shall
be made by the standing committee of the county
at its first meeting in every alternate year suc-
ceeding the presidential or gubernatorial elec-
tions and shall be in proportion to the Democratic
votes cast in each district at such election.
2. The election for delegates to represent the
different districts in the annual Democratic
County Convention shall be held at the usual
place of holding the general election for each dis-
trict on the Saturday preceding the second Tues-
day of June in each'and every year, beginning at
three o'clock p. m., on said day and continuing
until seven o'clock p. m. The delegates so elect.
ed shall meet in County Convention in the Court
House, at Bellefonte, on the Tuesday following at
twelve o'clock p. m,
3. The said delegate election shall be held by
an election hoard, to consist of the member of
county committee for each district and two other
Democratic voters thereof who shall be appointed
or designated by the county committee. In case
any of the persons so constituting the hoard shall
be absent from the place of holding the election
for a quarter of an hour after the time appointed
by Rule Second for the o ening of the same, his
or their place or places shall be filled by an ¢lec-
tion, to he conducted viva voea, by the Deno-
eratie voters present at that time.
4. Every qualified voter of the district, who at
the late general election voted the Democratic
ticket, shall be entltled to a vote at the delegate
election ; any qualified elector of the district who
will pledge "his word of honor to Sioa the
Democratic ticket at the next general election
shall be permitted to vote at the delegate elec-
tions,
by ballot ; upon which ballots shall be written or
printed the name or names of the delegates voted
for together with any instructions which the voter
may Soe to give the delegates. Each hallot
shall be aT the person voting the same
by a member of the election board, and by him
deposited in a hox or other receptacle provided
for that purpose, to which no persons but mem-
bers of the hoard shall have access,
nized unless the same be voted upon the ballot as
provided in Rule Fourth, nor shall such instruc-
tions if voted upon the ballot be binding tipon the
! delegates unless one-half or more of the ballots
! shall contain instructions concerning the same
office. Whenever half or more of the ballots
shall contain instructions concerning any office,
the delegates elected at such election shall he
held to be instructed to support the candidates
having the highest number of votes for such of-
fice.
7. Each election board shall keep an accurate
list of names of all persons voting at such elec.
tions, when the list of voters together with a full
and complete return of such election, containing
an accurate statement of the persons elected dele-
zates and all instruction voted, shall be certified
vy said board to the ony convention upon
printed blanks to be furnished by the county
convention.
& Whenever from any district qualified Demo-
cratic voters, in numbers equal to five times the
delegates which such district has in the county
convention, shall complain in writing of an undue
election, of false returns of delegates or of instruc-
tion, in which complaint the alleged facts shail be
specifically set forth and verified by the affidavit
of one or more persons, such complaints shall
have the right to contest the seat of such dele-
gates or the validity of such instructions. Such
complaint shall be heard by a committee of five
delegates to be appointed by the president of the
| convention ; which said committee shall proceed
to hear the parties, their proofs and
and as soon as may be report to the convention
what delegates are entitled to seats therein, and
what instructions are binding upon such dele-
| gates. Whereupon the convention shall proceed
| immediately on the call of the yeas and nays to
adopt or reject the report of the contesting par-
ties; in which call of the yeas and nays the names
of the delegates whose “seats are contested or
whose instructions are disputed shall he omitted.
9. All delegates must reside in the district
they represent. In case of absence or inability to
attend substitutes may be made from citizens of
the district.
10. Delegates must obey the instructions given
them by their respective districts and if violated,
it shall be the duty of the president of the con.
vention to cast the vote of such delegate or dele-
gates in accordance with the instructions, and the
delegate or delegates so offending shall be forth-
with expelled from the convention, and shall not
be he le to any office or place of trust in the
party for a period of two years.
11. ‘In the convention a majority of all voters
shall be necessary to a nomination, and no per-
son’s name shall be excluded from the list of can-
didates until after the third ballot or vote when
the person receiving the least number of votes,
shall be omitted and struck from the roll, and so
on at each successive vote until a nomination be
made.
12. If any person who is candidate for any
nomination before a county convention shall be
proven to have offered or paid any money or oth-
er valuable thing or made any promises of a con-
sideration or reward to any delegate for his vote,
or to any person with a view of inducing or secur-
ing the votes of delegates, or if the same shall be
done by any other person with the knowledge and
consent of such candidate, the name of such can-
didate shall be immediately stricken from the list
of candidates ; or if such facts be ascertained after
his nomination, he shall be struck from the ticket
and the vacancy Supplied by a new nomination,
and in either case such person shail be ineligible to
any nomination by the convention or to an elec-
tion as a delegate thereafter. And in ease it shall
be alleged after the adjournment of the conven-
tion that any candidate put in nomination has
been guilty of such acts or of any other fraudu-
lent practice to obtain such nomination, the
charges shall be investigated by the county com-
mittee, and such steps taken as the good of the
party may require.
13. any delegate shall receive any money or
other valuable thing, or accept the promise of any
consideration or reward to be paid, delivered or
secured to him or to any person for such cundi-
date, as an inducement for his vote upon proof of
the fact to the satisfaction of the convention such
delegate will be forthwith expelled, and shall not
be received as a delegate to any further conven-
tion, and shall be ineligible to any party nomina-
tion.
14. Cases arising under the Eighth, Twelfth
and Thirteenth Bok. shall have precedence over
all other business in convention until determined.
15. That the term of the chairman of the
county committee shall begin on the first day of
January of each and every year.
16. That the delegates from the several bor-
oughs and townships be authorized, in conjunc-
tion with the chairman of the county committee,
to appoint the members of the committee for the
various boroughs and townships.
17. That hereafter the representation of the
Democratic party of Centre county in ALL distriet
conferences shall consist of one delegate for every
five hundred Democratic voters (or fraetional
part thereof over one half) cast at the last presi-
dential or gubernatorial election. That the county
committee of Centre, should apportion said
county into districts each containing as nearly
500 Democratic votes as possible and publish said
SpRoriontont a sufficient time before the Primary
election to give ‘the voter full and ample notice
thereof. And that district delegates be elacted at
every subsequent election whenever a nomina-
nation is to be made.
Ee ————— '
Thirty Known Dead.
Details of the Cyclone’s Ravages in Kansas Still
Laching—Many of the Victims Identified—Property
Loss Will Foot Up Many Thousands.
KANsAs City, May 18.—Still incom-
plete reports from the cyclone-devastated
region of Kansas show that the storm,
which originated in the northwestern part
of the state, followed a zigzag path, taking
in the towns of Brankfort, Baileyville,
Seneca. Sabetua, Reserve, Concordia and
many others, crossing into Nebraska at
Falls City. ’
At Sabetna and vicinity the dead are
~ Mrs. Jacob Meisner, Hattie Buehney, El-
len Carry, the Sherrard and Conwell child-
ren, two in the first family and four in the
latter, Mrs. Dan Sailor, Mrs. Scugg, Mrs.
Beachy and four unknown adults, a total
of 16. The injured number 11 more.
Forty families in this town are homeless,
The loss to property is about $40,000.
The town of Bodoville, Riley county,
was swept away and five people were kill-
ed. At Spring Valley a church was des-
troyed and the 150 worshipers were all in-
jured, Rev. Mason receiving probably fatal
injuries.
At Reserve six people were killed and 15
injured. Among thedead are D. W. Ter-
hune, aged 60, Ralph Sweeny, aged 9 ;
Viola Phillips, aged 4, and John Rynder, a
blind man. The town itself was destroyed,
at a loss of $50,000. The cyclone here was
in the shape of an umbrella and descended
so suddenly that scarcely a dozen persons
reached their cellars or cyclone pits.
At Oneida six people were killed and
about 20 injured, while just to the north-
west four persons were killed in the wreck
of their houses.
5. The voting at all delegate elections shall be |
6. No instructions shall be received or recog- |
allegations, |
The Bishops Named.
Deadlock at the Methodist General Conference Was
Broken.—McCabe and Cranston Won Out.
CLEVELAND, May 19.—Bishop Bowman,
the venerable senior bishop of the Metho-
dist copal church, presided over the
general conference, probably for the last
time, this morning. This isthe sixteenth
day of the conference. None of the great
questions to be settled by the conference
have yet been discussed on the floor. The
great questions of time limit, lay represen-
tation, amusements, temperance, recogni-
tion of Christian Endeavor societies, for-
eign episcopal residence, location of episco-
pal residences in the United States and
many other equally important questions
are yet to come up.
Rev. Charles I. Stafford, of Iowa, put
the conference in a great uproar by moving
that-the election of bishops be indefinitely
postponed. This was opposed by Dr.
Buckley, and supported by Rev. R. Mace,
of New. Jersey. After further discussion,
during which it was proposed to drop the
candidate receiving the lowest vote on each
ballot, the motion to postpone was defeat-
vod.
Rev. Dr. Robert Forbes, of Duluth, said
that the people were getting converted too
fast. ‘““Insome places all you have to do is
to hold up your hand and’ shout, ‘Come to
Jesus,” and you are saved. It will soon be
so that you may get saved by sending your
cabinet photograph and having,it baptized.
Salvation will soon be on sale by telephone
and telegraph.’” The report was adopted.
The fourteenth ballot for bishops resulted
as follows: McCabe, 258; Cranston, 261;
Hamilton, 149; Buttz, 123; Neeley, 112;
Bowen; 35.| Chaplain C. C. McCabe was
elected bishpp on the fifteenth ballot and
Earl Cranston was within nine votes of elec
tion. The announcement of the result was
| greeted with great applause and loud cries
{of ‘“McCabe.”’ The vote necessary to a
| choiee, 336. McCabe, 344; Cranston, 328,
| Buttz, 112; Hamilton, 109; Neeley, 50;
| Bowen, 30.
Chaplain McCabe was invited to the
platform, where he received the congratu-
lations of his brother bishops. Bishop-
elect McCabe led the conference in singing
the old missionary hymn, “From Green-
Jand’s Icy Mountains.’
Earl Cranston was elected bishop on the
sixteenth ballot. The vote : Necessary to
a choice 336 ; Cranston 366, Buttz 82,
Hamilton 36 ; Neeley 10, scattering 10.
Horace Boles for President.
The Choice of lowa Democrats for the Chief Magis-
tracy.
DUBUQUE, Ia., May 19.—The represen-
tatives of the Democracy of this State, in
convention to-morrow, will declare for free
silver and will present Horace Boies as
Iowa’s candidate for the presidential nomi-
nation upon the Democratic ticket. There-
upon the ex-Governor will make an ad-
dress unequivocally endorsing the sixteen
to one doctrine and, receding from the at-
titude he has hitherto assumed, will an-
nounce that he places himself in the hands
of his friends. This is the program as out-
lined by the leaders of the dominant ele-
ment to-night. ne
There are indications, however, that it
{ will not be carried through without pos-
sible scenes of turbulence and disorder.
Although outnumbered, three to one, the
gold standard advocates, led by ex-Congress-
man Harper will fight to the last ditch.
Nothing in It, Says Hastings.
HARRISBURG, May 20.—Governor Hast-
ings, when asked about the story that
Senator Quay proposed to make him vice
President, as told in dispatches from Wash-
ington, said this morning that it was the
first he had heard of it. He read the story
with some interest and at the end remark-
ed : ‘‘There is nothing in it.” The Gov-
ernor says he isnot a candidate for any-
thing, that he is a delegate to the national
convention and expects to go and place
Quay’s name before the convention for
President. Furthermore he is very well
contented with his present official position
and does not care to change it.
——Two New York journals, The
World and The Herald, have successively
made efforts to get Candidate McKinley
to say where he stands on the money ques
tion, and to each and every such attempt
his unvarying answer has been : ‘I have
nothing to say.” But the people whose in
telligence he thus insults, and whose busi-
iness welfare he thus trifles with, may have
something to say. They had something to
say once before the Major in a style which
made his ears tingle ; and they have not
lost the courage of their convictions, nor
their contempt for the cowardice that seeks
refuge in silence when an issue demanding
honest and manliness is to be met.
All Through Brush Valley.
‘This week all the farmers of the valley are
engaged in making roads.
Rev. Shortess, of Madisonburg, was in Co-
lumbia county last week.
Reuben Gramley is improving, but Mrs.
George Kreamer is quite ill.
Dr. Hosterman, the dentist, is now located
at Thomas Auman’s, in Rebersburg, ,
George Hubler is slowly improving from a
stroke of paralysis of the entire left side of
his body.
Hon. Henry Meyer, of Rebersburg, is very
busy with the law and lumber business this
summer and the fish are glad of it.
Madisonburg has “planted” its telephone
poles about half way to Rebersburg but they
have not been wired yet.
The household goods of the new Reformed
minister, Rev. Moses George, were shipped to
Rebersburg this week. The preacher and
family will come on the 29th or 30th.
Israel Krumrine, who has been living in
Rebersburg for some years, will move to
Williamsport in a few days where he has
bought property and will keep a meat mar-
ket.
Spring Mills.
Arthur Kerlin, of Centre Hall, is reported
to be the most extensive dealer in eggs in
Penns valley.
Bark pealing is now in order. We have
been shipping from our R. R. station for the
last ten days, about four car loads daily.
On Sunday last James Kennelley, of this
village, killed a black snake near his resi-
dence measuring four feet, seven inches in
length.
Last week Mrs. Faus and her sister visited
their mother, Mrs. Williams, at Lamar, Clin-
ton Co. They also visited a sister residing in
Williamsport.
The citizen’s band are practicing for Deco-
ration day. They are under the instruction
of Prof. W. A. Brown, of Farmer's Mills, a
very competent teacher.
Re
| his friends in line.
Samuel Crainford, one of the respected
citizen's of Gregg township, visits our village
quite frequently, The venerable gentleman
has hosts of friends here and they are always
glad to see him.
W. Shiner, the energetic insurance agent of
our village, is kept very busy of late. He is
also connected with the fire escape company
of Johnstown. This “escape” is a first rate
arrangement, easily adjusted and there is no
necessity for being cremated when such a
contrivance to prevent it, can be obtained for
very little money.
RuxN OVER BY His WAGON.—John Durst,
son of Philip Durst, from near Centre Hall,
met with a shocking accident, on Thursday
last. He was hauling baled hay and ac-
cidentally fell befove the wagon, the front
wheel passing over his arm crushing it ina
fearful manner, he also received a dangerous
wound in the head. His condition is said to
be critical. The accident occurred ahout a
half mile above our village.
G. H. Leymen, of Boggs township, , Demo-
cratic candidate for the nomination for sher-
iff was here last week. He repcrts his pros-
pects as being very flattering. Prof. Meyers,
of Harris Twp., Democratic candidate for the
nomination of commissioner, was also here.
The Prof. is very popular in this valley, both
politically and musically. A. R. Alexander,
of Penn, and Frank Foreman, of Centre
Hall, both Democratic candidates for the
nomination for recorder, were also visitors.
They both rank high in this neighborhood.
C. P. Long, merchant of our village and Re-
publicay candidate for the nomination for
treasurer, has heen afflicted for the past few
days with a sty in one of his eyes. Political-
ly Mr. Long is making a strong canvas.
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Pine Grove Mention.
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Cards are out for a wedding at the home of
farmer Ewing, on the 26th.
| Mrs. Mary Ellen Dunlap Stover, of Al-
toona, is making her annual spring visit to
our town folks.
| Wm. J. Myers is this week in attendence
{atthe I. O. O. F. grand lodge meeting at
| Pittsburg. He is the representative of Penns
Valley lodge 276, and a full report can be ex-
{ pected upon his return.
| Mrs. Mary Archey, mother of Mrs. Heze-
| kiah Ewing, died at her home at Orbisonia
| after a long illness. She was eighty years
{ old and well known here where most of her
relatives live. She was buried in the Grays-
ville cemetery on the 21st.
Two ex-sheriffs, Woodring and Ishler,
spent several days last week showing up
their line of farm implements and the wood
binder which they are agents for. They al-
so handle a Canada thistle exterminator that
will destroy the pest.
Our farmer friend, Andy Lytle, isspending
his spare moments trying to get the good
will of a young bear. Itis one of the three
young cubs that were caught in the mount-
Hoover, who were fishing and chanced to see
the cubs and carried them off before old bru-
in put in her appearance. The bear is fairly
tame and has only brought the blood once
with his scratches.
Decoration day services will be held at
Meekis burial ground on the 30th at 1:30
o’clock p. m., when Rev. Guyer will deliver
the address. The next objective point will
be Pine Grove cemetery where attorneys
Dale and Mitchell, of Bellefonte, will orate.
All the Sunday schools, the J. 0. U. A. M.
and the I. 0. O. F. organizations will assist
the G. A. R. at the services. Pine Hall
cemetery will be visited at 5:30, Rev. Jas. O.
Dennison of State College will eulogize the
fallen heroes who faced the foe, and in
many instances lost their lives.
Rev. Mr. Pohlman, who was billed for a lect-
ure on Africa, failed to get here on account of
having collided with a trolley car while rid-
ing his bicycle. The large audience which
had assembled were not disappointed, as they
were treated to a fine sermon by the Rev.
Wm. G. Fortney who referred several times
to his youthful days spent in our midst. In
the school room he was known as a ready de-
bater and good talker. His beard is quite
gray, but his face is still unseamed by the
lines of time. He is a brother of D. F. Fort-
ney, of Bellefonte and J. G. of this place.
Among the candidates, anxious to serve
the people in official capacity who passed this
way last week, were Port Burkett, republi-
can candidate for treasurer entreating his
friends to stand fast and he is sure of the
.| nomination ; Dan Heckman, of Benner, who
made a flying trip as did Joe Neff of Boggs,
both looking up old and new friends on the
democratic side. Frank Forman, of Potter,
was in town politically, he is quite popular
with the boys and his fences are in good re-
pair. We also had the pleasure of meeting
Mr. Richards, of Philipsburg, republican
candidate for register, over this way getting
This is his first visit
to Penns Valley. Runkel, of Bellefonte, and
Emerick, of Walker township, were both
;| here getting in their work for the sheriff's
nomination.
DEATH OF WILSON GARDNER.—On the
evening of the 16th Wilson. Gardner one of
our most respected citizens died at his home
after a longillness. For months he had been
in failing health and in the last weeks he
had gone down rapidly with consumption.
All his life was passed on the farm on which
he was born it is, probably one of the best
located in the “Glades.” Surrounded with all
the comforts of a pleasant home. and the
companionship of a congenial family, he en-
Jjoyed life thoroughly. His death is the first
break in the home circle where hospi-
tality and kindness were shown so gener-
ously. ;
He was the oldest son of John and Mary
Wilson Gardner both dead these many
years. He was 55 years, 9 months and 9 days
old. Early in life he joined the Presbyterian
church and ever continued a helpful mem-
ber. His wife, Sarah Keichline and their
five children William and Harry, Robert and
George and Mary survive him. His sisters
and brother living are Mrs. Clemson and
Kate, of Pittsburg, Mrs. Mattern and Mrs.
Goheen, of Tyrone, Mrs. Kinkaid, of Illinois,
and Frank of Pennsylvania Furnace. He
was conscious that death was near and as his
daughter ministered so faithfully to him he
said he was ready and willing to go where
sickness and sorrow enter not. -His funer-
al on the 20th, was one of the largest ever
seen in this valley, Rev. Ermintrout con-
ducted the services assisted by. Rev. Kelly
and Aikens. Interment was made in the
Graysville cemetery.
ains back of Coburn by young Homan and |
Centre Hall.
Present indications show good prospects for
all kinds of fruit through this valley.
Samuel Kreamer and Miss Sadie Sholl were
married quietly at the home of the bride,
Thursday evening of last week. Mr.
Kreamer is the junior member of the mer-
cantile firm of Kreamer & Son, successor to
Harper & Kreamer. !
The cemetery association of this place pur-
chased the old Reformed church site last
week for $250 and will add it to the present
burying ground owned by that association.
A number of important improvements will
be made in the cemetery during the present
year.
A convention of the Woman’s Home and
Foreign Missionary society of the northern
conference of the Lutheran church will be
held in this place on the 3rd and 4th of June.
The local society here is a stirring body, and
will make every effort to have an interesting
and instructive gathering.
+ A great many more improvements are be-
ing made by residents to their homes. They
are too numerous and varied to men-
tion, suffice to say that it isan indication that
there must be some money in the tills of the
property owners which they are willing to
exchange for better appearances and com-
forts. :
W. B. Mingle received his justice of the
peace commission last week, and is now a
justice in the fullest sense of the word. Of
all local offices, justice of the peace is the
most important, and the borough congratu-
lates itself upon having an official as fair-
minded, honest and capable as the present
incumbent. Our people have implicit confi-
dence in ‘squire Mingle’s integrity, and in-
telligence, and that he will act in his official
capacity in a just and fearless manner will
not be questioned by anyone who has the
slightest acquaintance with him.
Every other candidate that comes around
to love you this season of the year never for-
gets to add that he has nothing to say against
his competitors, but at the same time gives
them all the shaking up he possibly can.
Another familiar talk is how ill-paid every
trade, business and occupation is, excepting
the public officers from county to the presiden-
tial chair. (The latter most of these office-seck-
ers know too much to fill.) Now, if these men
are really sincere, let them come before the
people and say that they will perform the
work in the office to which they are aspiring
fora certain sum, and they will find that
many voters will put the X opposite their
name.
State College and Vicinity.
Dr. G. G. Pond is absent on a short busi-
ness trip East. :
J. A. Fries has just returned fromea busi-
ness trip to the eastern part of the State.
Miss Mae Beck is visiting at the pleasant
home of her friend Miss Nell Patterson.
On last Sunday. evening the Epworth
League anniversary was the occasion of the
presentation of a fine program. :
Mrs. Wm. C. Patterson has just returned
from College Park, Md., where she has been
visiting her son Harry T., who is an officer
of the Maryland experiment station.
Hon. Thos. J. ‘Edge, secretary of state
Department of Agriculture, ‘and Hon. A. C.
True, division director of experiment sta-
tions of U. S. Department of Agriculture,
were two prominent visitors here during the
past week. :
The board of road viewers consisting of E.
R. Chambers, Chas. Smith and Chris Decker
have reported on the opening of a road from
the turnpike at the M. E. church to Boals-
burg road between the properties of Robert
M. and Wm. Foster.
The cadets were inspected last Saturday by
an officer of the U. S. army, who was ac-
companied by some of the officers of com-
pany B. of Bellefonte. The officer was very
much pleased with the inspection. The
battalion did credit to itself,
Books, Magazines, Etc.
The taste for the pleasures of the wilderness,
which is rapidly increasing in this country, will
be gratified by a paper on “The Ouananiche and
its Canadian Environment,” announced for publi-
cation in the June number of Harper's. By the:
employment of the name ‘‘ouananiche” the au-
thor, Mr. E. T. D. Chambers, introduces a decid-
edly pretty and somewhat unfamiliar word into
the popular vocabulary : but it should not be in-
ferred from this that he makes a secret of his
theme or a hopeless mystery of the angler’s art.
Quite the contrary.
Bret Harte’s new story and Jerome K. Jerome's
latest piece of fiction have both been secured by
The Ladies’ Home Journal for immediate publica-
tion. Jerome's story is called “Reginald Blake ;
Financier and Cad,” and sketches an incident in
fashionable London society. Bret Harte calls his
story “The Indiscretion of ElsHeth,” and pictures
the romanee of a young American who falls in
love with a German princes, masquerading as a
dairy maid.
—
Senator John H. Mitchell, of Oregon, will con-
tribute to the’June number of The Forum a power-
ful and convincing article advocating the “Elec-
tion of Senators by Popular Vote.” He thinks
that the political and moral supremacy of the peo-
ple can be rightfully expressed and maintained
only when they exercise this right directly and not
vicariously. He believes that the election of Un it-
ed State Senators by popular vote will (1) afford an
efficient remedy for the many evils resulting from
the present system of Senatorial elections—such
as length of time consumed and frequent failure
to choose, and the consequent distraction of the
legislative mind from its proper business; (2)
discourage the use of improper means to influence
the control of Senatorial elections; (3) greatly
diminish the temptation to gerrymander ; (4) en-
large the political rights of the individual voter
relating to suffrage : (5) eliminate from elections
involving the selection of members of the legisla-
lature one great cause for irritation and unseemly
contention wherein as a rule the question upon
which everything is made to turns is as to how
this or that man will vote for Senator, rather than
upon the question as to his fitness for the office of
legislator; and (6) effectively tend to the destruc-
tion of “boss rule.” Senator Mitchell contends
that a thoroughly aroused and enlightened public
opinion demands the change, and urges that this
demand be respected by Congress to the extent of
giving the people of the several States, through
their representatives in the legislatures an oppor-
tunity to pass upon the question; for, in his
opinion, “no harm is likely to come to represen-
tative republican government in America by in-
trusting to the qualified electors ofthe nation the
right to choose by popular vote the Mgn who are
to make their laws.”
——Subseribe for the WATC HMAN.