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Bellefonte, Pa., May 29, 1896.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - Ebprror. I
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A Great Man Gone.
The news of the death of ex-Senator
WALLACE, of Clearfield, which occurred in !
New York, on Friday morning last, while
expected was none the less sorrowfully re- |
ceived by our people who have known, and
respected, and loved him since he first be-
came prominent in the political and busi-
ness life of this section. With his passing
away ends the list—with the single excep- |
tion of ex-Senator BUCKALEwW—of Penn- |
sylvania’s prominent, old-time, big-brained
Democrats, who did service for the party |
before and through the trying times of the
war, and whose labors and counsel were
largely instrumental in achieving the vic-
tories it has to look back upon since that
period. To say that for years Senator WAL-
LACE was one of the most prominent and
influential men of the State would be doing
the memory of the dead statesman an in-
justice. During many of the years that |
passed between 1860 and the time of his |
voluntary retirement from public life, he
was the most honored, trusted, and influen- |
tial citizen the State had to point to. Asa
legislator no one léft his impress upon the | ]
~ . | meet at the regular places for holding the general
statute books as did Senator WALLACE ;
as a politician no one inspired the same re-
spect and confidence in the people that he |
did ; and as a leader he was without a |
superior or a peer. And above and beyond |
all else that can be said of him, is the one
great, recognized fact that during all his |
public career no suspicion of any selfish |
motive, actuating and controlling him,
ever entered the mind of any one or tainted !
the honorable record he has left. !
Elsewhere the WATCHMAN gives a brief |
epitome of the positions he filled and the |
work he accomplished, and herewith ten-
ders its condolence to those upon whom
the shadow of this great sorrow now rests so
heavily, as well as to the people of the
State who have lost so much in the death of
one whose chief aim in life was to elevate
and advance the power and honor of the
Commonwealth.
They Want a Revenue Deficiency.
One of the charges which the Republi-
cans make against the WILSON tariff is that
it does not produce revenue enough for the
expenses of the government. The fact is
that it is a better revenue producer than
the MCKINLEY tariff, but it is difficult for
any revenue measure to keep up with the
increased expenses which a Republican
Congress is piling upon the government.
If the WILSON tariff is deficient in produc-
ing needed revenue what is to be said of
the MCKINLEY enactment under the opera-
tions of which the one hundred million
surplus which had been left in the treasury
by CLEVELAND'S first administration had
to be used by the HARRISON administra-
tion to meet expenses ?
The WILSON tariff was intended as a
measure that would supply the revenue re-
quired for an economical administration of
the government. It was supplemented by
the income tax bill which together with
the reduced duties of the new tariff would
furnish all the revenue that would be need-
ed. Unfortunately the United States su-
preme court, which habitually favors
wealth, annulled the income tax, and to
that extent the original intention and ad-
justment of the Democratic revenue policy
was interfered with. :
The Republicans, who are raising such a
clamor about the deficiency of revenue
under the WILSON tariff, if they were sin-
cerely concerned about it, could remedy the
defect without resorting to increased tariff
taxation on the common neeessaries of life.
They had their chance last week when an
amendment to the filled cheese bill was of-
fered in the Senate imposing an additional
tax of $1 a barrel on beer, ale and other
malt liquors. This would increase the reve-
nue $30,000,000 a year and supply every
possible dificiency, but it was promptly
voted down by the Republican majority.
The truth is that they don’t want reve-
nue that is securtd in any other way than
by tariff duties that tax the necessaries of
the people and promote the advantage of
monopolistic beneficiaries, and at this time
it is particularly their policy to make as
much revenue and currency trouble as
possible in order that they may blame it
on a Democratic administration and utilize
it for a campaign purpose.
Premature Promises.
There may be a little too much previous-
ness in the promise which is said to have
been made by Congressman JOHN DALZELL
that immediately after the inauguration of
President McKINLEY, next spring, Congress
will be called together to repeal the WiL-
SON tariff and a Republican tariff will be
substituted.
Such a performance will depend upon
several contingencies. MCKINLEY will
have to be first elected, and maybe that
contingency will not occur. There will
have to be a Congress that will desire to re-
store the MCKINLEY system of tariff spoli-
ation, and there might not be such a Con-
gress.
There can be no doubt that the trusts
and monopolies would favor the repeal of
the present tariff, and will probably do
what they can to restore the system that so
liberally played into their hands ; but there
is a strong sentiment in business circles
against allowing those interests to make
another tariff bill to suit themselves. If it
should at any time hereafter occur that the
WiLsoN tariff will be altered or repealed it
will not be followed by a tariff of the rob-
ber character. It will most likely be a
lower tariff than the present one.
Revenue and Expenditure.
We hear a good deal said about the in-
adequacy of the present Democratic tariff
to produce revenue sufficient to meet gov-
ernment expenses. In the name of all that
is sensible what sort of a tariff will be re-
quired to raise money enough to meet the
ever increasing extravagance of a Republi-
can Congress ? The present fiscal provisions
are ample for expenses that could be con-
sidered decidedly liberal, but when there is
criminal profligacy in the expenditures no
reasonable tariff can be expected to fur-
nish sufficient means. z
When, for example, three thousand pri-
vate pension bills are passed in addition to
the general pension laws that hand out the
government bounty to almost everybody
that may pretend to have done military ser-
vice, how can it be expected that ordinary
means of revenue can keep up to such ex-
penses? When river and harbor bills, which
formerly were satisfied with from $15,000,-
000 to $20,000,000 a year, are run up, as is
the case this year, to $70,000,000, in present
and prospective expenses, how can any tar-
iffs be devised that will keep the revenue
abreast of such criminal extravagance ?
Wouldn’t it be better to reduce expenses
within the hounds of decency than to
| clamor for revenue adequate to such profii-
gacy ?
County Democracy—Primary Election
and County Convention.
The Democratic voters of Centre county will
elections in their respective election districts, on
SATURDAY, JUNE 6th, 1806,
to elect delegates to the County Convention, at
which time tiiey may vote instructions if they sce
fit. Under the rules of the party the election will
open at3 o'clock P. M. The delegates chosen at
the above stated time will meet in the court
house, in Bellefonte, on.
TUESDAY, JUNE oth, 1806,
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 can-
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 Commitice 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 i Haines,
tt S. Ww, 3 | t Ww
fe Lg .1 | Half Moon
Centre Hall Boro. .1 | Harris
Howard wt .1 | Howard,
Milesburg .1 | Huston,
Millheim® «© , .2 | Liberty,
Philipsburg, 1st W......1 | Marion,
Li nd W......2 | Miles,
se ard W...... 11 £8
S. Philipsburg. ! +
Unionville ** | Patton,
Benner, N. P | Penn,
£¢ $I Potter,
Boggs, N. te
ok E. P. Rush,
“« Wp”
Burnside ....
College, E. P.... ; hh
oC wWP i Spring,
Curtin tt
Ferguson, E. | ¢
£4 Ww. | iaslon,
Gregg N. | Union
ri EP. < Walker
Lf W.D.... 2 Worth, . a
Fotki niin 79
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 district committeeman.
Laid to Rest.
Funeral of Ex-Senator Wallace at Clearfield Tues-
day.
CLEARFIELD, Pa., May 26.—All that
was mortal of ex-United States Senator
William A. Wallace was laid to rest in
Clearfield cemetery this afternoon. It was
perhaps the largest funeral train ever wit-
nessed in Clearfield. - The procession was
preceded by city officials and members of
the bars of Clearfield and adjoining coun-
ties on foot, and immediately following
were the honorary pall-bearers in carriages.
Then came the funeral car, active pall-
bearers, members of the family, relatives,
friends and citizens. The day was beauti-
ful and thousands came to Clearfield to
pay their last respects to the illustrious
dead.
_ The services were held at the family resi-
dence and were conducted by Rey: Dr. R.
A. McKinley, of Steubenville, O., late pas-
tor of the Presbyterian church of Clearfield.
Dr. McKinley paid a beautiful and touch-
ing tribute to the memory of the departed
statesman, who was his friend. The open-
ing prayer was made by the Rev. W. A.
Stephens, D. D., pastor of the Clearfield
Methodist Episcopal church. The musical
features of the services were rendered with
unusual impressiveness, the tenor being
sung by Cyrus Gordon, president judge of
Clearfield county.
The active pall-bearers were Judge Cyrus
Gordon, Congressman W. C. Arnold, Hon.
James Flynn, ex-District Attorney S. V.
Wilson, Frank Fielding, A. B. Reed, A.
W. Leeand J. H. Kelley. The honorary
pall-bearers were : Ex-Governor Pattison,
Judges Landis, Jenks and Mayer, Senators
McAteer, King, Betts and McQuown,
John E. Faunce, Benjamin F. Meyers, G.
M. Brisbin, Thomas Collins, S. R. Peale,
J. K. P. Hall, Henry Alvin Hall, James
Kerr, Colonel Coryell and J. L. Spangler.
Brief services were held at the cemetery.
A public meeting of the several bar asso-
ciations was held in the court house in the
forenoon in honor of the deceased, presided
over by Judge Gordon, who delivered a
short eulogy upon the dead. He was fol-
lowed by J. B. McEnaly, ex-Governor Pat-
tison, B. F. Meyers, of Harrisburg ; John
E. Faunce, of Philadelphia, and others.
Business was generally suspended and
business houses closed here during the day.
Blair County Centennial.
Reduced Rates Via Pennsylvania Railroad.
For the Blair county semi-centennial, to
be celebrated at Hollidaysburg, Pa., June
11 and 12, the Pennsylvania railroad com-
pany will sell, on June 10, 11, and 12, ex-
cursion tickets to Holidaysburg and return,
from Pittsburg, Harrisburg, and interme-
diate stations (including all stations on
branch roads, except stations on the Bed-
ford division,) good for return passage un-
til June 13, inclusive, at reduced rates.
June 11, will he military and grand army
day, and June 12, civic and industrial day.
nado.
noon.—The Mountl City is Reported to Be in a State
of Panic.—The List of the Dead in 8t. Louis Cannot
Found Up to 10 o'clock Last Night—Reported that
200 Girls are in the Ruins of a Cigarette Factory.
struction mark the pathway of a tornado,
which passed over this city shortly after 5
o'clock this afternoon. The list of the dead
in St. Louis cannot be estimated, until
alarming reports of loss of life in collapsed
buildings can be confirmed. At least forty
lifeless bodies have been found up to 10
o’clook. If the reports are true that 200
girls are in the ruins of a cigarette factory
and that many were killed in East St. Louis,
in a state of panic. Nearly all electric
wires are down and the city is in darkness.
To add to the confusion, the tornado was
followed by a deluge of rain, accompanied
continue. Telephone wires are useless,
and liverymen refuse requests for convey-
ances on account of prostrate electric wires.
The scene in East St. Louis is appalling.
The tornado struck that city with terrible
effect, and it is now estimated that 300 per-
sons are dead in that place alone as a re-
sult of the wind, flood and flames.
fore the flames were gotten under control,
property to the value of nearly $3,000,000
was destroyed.
{ed severely.
DETAILS OF THE HORROR.
St. Louis was struck by a cyclone of
| frightful fury at a late hour this afternoon.
| Hundreds of people were killed and the !
| property loss is beyond estimate.
At 5.20 p. m. the clouds that had cov-
ered the city since noon broke into a furious
storm. Within ten minutes the wind had
| reached a-velocity of eighty miles an hour,
| sweeping with it dense waves of rain. The
i August, 1878. The screeching of the wind
that swept in every direction, the electric
flashes from tangled wires and crashing
thunder made a scene indescribable. The
loss of life is appalling. :
Last St. Louis suffered probably the
| greatest. Messengers came at 7 p. m.
from there asking for physicians and
nurses.
blown up in the middle of the river, and a
number of persons killed.
six and twenty lady passengers on board,
was blown against a bridge pier and broken
in two. The ladies and two of the crew
clung to the bridge stonework and were
rescued.
St. Patrick’s church, at Sixth and Bid-
dle streets, fell and the debris filled the
street. The electric railway is burned out,
as well as the electric light plant. ~~ Four-
teen fire alarms were sounded within an
hour, and three alarms were sent in from
the poor house, which building has 1,
inmates. The roof of the poor-house was
blown off and the fatalities are great.
During the last race of the fair grounds
the roof of the grand stand was blown off.
The crowd had gone to the open fields for
safety and but four men were killed.
At 7.30 p. m. the rain, which had ceased
for a time, began afresh and fell in tor-
rents. At 8 o’clock the eastern sky was
aflame with the light of fires in East St. !
Louis. The metal roof of the Merchants’ |
exchange was rolled up like a scroll, and |
| fell into the streets. !
| The Louisville and Nashville east bound
local passenger train had just reached East
St. Louis when the storm struck the city.
The train was overturned but miraculously
only a few passengers were injured.
CARS PICKED UP BY WIND.
The Chicago and Alton east bound local
passenger train, which left St.
o'clock, was on the east span of the bridge
when the wind picked the cars up and
turned them over on their sides. The iron
pling over into the river 100 feet below.
- The passengers were thrown into a con-
fused mass. The net work of wires made
rescue difficult and dangerous, but it is
thought all will be gotten out uninjured.
The east span of the bridge is so badly
to allow trains to pass.
are hourly increasing and at 9 o’clock it is
estimated that the loss of life will exceed
150. It is impossible to cross the bridge or
river to get particulars.
Lightning struck the Standard Oil works
and flames were soon pouring from a dozen
buildings. The fire department was utter-
ly powerless to cope with the conflagration
and it is feared nearly the entire business
and a great portion of the residence section
will be destroyed by the flames if “not al-
ready so by the wind.
Among the principal buildings in ruins
are the National hotel, the Standard Oil
works, East St. Louis wire nail works, the
Crescent elevator, Hesel elevator, all freight
depots and stores and residences on St.
Clair avenue.
NO NEWS FROM SURROUNDING TERRITORY.
At 8 o’clock to-night no wire can be ob-
tained to surrounding territory in the
western and northern portions of Missouri,
but it is feared that the loss of life in these
sections will be very large.
There were really two cyclones. One
came from the northwest and the other
from the direct east. Both met on the
Illinois shore of the Mississippi river and
joined in a whirling cloud of death and
destruction. The list of dead in St. Louis
is beyond present computation.
A startling report has just reached po-
lice headquarters that 200 girls are in the
ruins of Liggitt & Meyers’ cigarette factory
at Tower Grove park. Alarming reports
of great loss of life in the southern portion
of St. Louis from railroad track to Caron-
delet are heard. .
The wind swept away the roof of the Ex-
position building, and that structure is
badly damaged by the flood of water. The
greatest anxiety is felt for the safty of
passengers on the different excursion boats
which were on the river when the storm
broke. The levee is packed with people,
groping through the darkness and eagerly
imploring information of loved ones on the
river.
The destruction to property in this city
will not be learned until daylight. The
Annunciation church, at Sixth and La
Salle streets, was totally destroyed. Father
Head, the pastor, was fatally injured.
Michael Dawes, a driver, was blown from
his wagon in the vicinity and instantly
killed.
The middle span of the road above the
railroad tracks on the Eads bridge was
blown completely away. It is not known
Hundreds of Persons Killed by a Tor
Death and Destruction Marked the Pathway of a Cy- |
clone That Swept Quer 8t. Louis Wednesday After-
Be Estimated—At Least Forty Lifeless Bodies Were
St. Lours, Mo., May 27.—Death and de- |
the list will reach nearly 300. The city is |
by vivid flashes of lightning, which still |
The tornado was followed by an out- |
break of fire, caused by lightning, and, be- |
The tornado passed in an |
| easterly direction and it is reported that |
| Vandalia and Caseyville, in Illinois, suffer- |
highest speed of wind previously recorded |
here was seventy-two miles an hour, in
through electric wires, the crash of debris |
The steamer D. H. Pike, with thirty
passengers on board, bound for Peoria, was |
The steamer Delaphia, with a crew of |
uis at 5 |
spans and trusses held the cars from top- |
wrecked that it will take two or three days |
The reports of fatalities in East St. Louis |
{ whether any persons lost their lives while
crossing the bridge.
e Plant flour mills and the works of
the St. Louis. iron and steel company were
| destroyed and the big Cupples block of
buildings were partly demolished.
REMOVING THE DEAD.
The dead and injured are being taken
from the ruins of the various buildings and
manufactories. The Waters-Pierce oil
works were destroyed by fire, and buildings
in several parts of the city have been burn-
. ing all night.
i H.C. Rice, the manager of the Western
| Union, at the relay on the east side, re-
ports a wreck of terrible proportions. He
' said the National hotel, Tremont house,
| Mastell house, De Wolf’s cafe, Hasel Mill
| ing company’s mill, Horn’s cooper shop
jand a large number of dwellings east of
| that section were swept into wreckage.
The Baltimore and Ohio Vandalia round
| house, the Standard oil works, East St.
| Louis and Crescent elevators and a dozen
| freight houses were caught in the vortex of
- the cyclone and reduced to debris.
A cyclone destructive of life and much
property visited East St. Louis in J une,
1872. The principal destruction was along
| the water front and in the railroad yards, and
between sixty and seventy lives were lost.
{ The cyclone happened the same time of
the day as to-day’s awful second visitation
‘as well as nearly the same time of year.
Iowa Storm Left Death and Ruins.
Three Villages were Almost Carried Away by the
Wind.—Quer Thirty Persons Killed,
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, May 25.—The
villages of Valeria, Mingo and Santiago,
' Jasper county, on the Chicago Great West-
{ern Railway, between this city and Des
Moines, were nearly wiped from the face of
the earth by a cyclone last night, and ad-
jacent counties were laid waste, with con-
siderable loss of life and great destruction
| of railway and other property. Reports up
to this afternoon as to the number of vie-
tims say fourteen were killed at Valeria,
i five at Mingo, four in the country a few
miles west of Bon Dorant, and three at San-
tiago. The names of the killed were :
SCENE IN A DEMOLISHED HOUSE.
A terrible spectacle was presented in one
demolished house in Valeria. Several
| members of a family named Failous, father,
, mother and five children, were found lying
| dead among the wreckage in one room, ex-
cept the mother, who is not expected to
live. Two children named Aikens were al-
so killed outright and a large number of
people in the village and the adjaceat
| county severely injured. .
A witness of the storm says the approach-
ing cloud looked like an inverted beer bot-
tle, and dipped down at Valeria with ap-
palling suddenness and frightful effect,
wrenching oak trees two feet in diameter,
| or pulling them out by the roots as if they
| were weeds. The track and right of way
' of the Chicago and Great Western, with a
| number of bridges and trestle work be-
| tween Ira and Mingo, a number of miles,
| were torn down and carried away. Tele-
| graph lines are down, and details are only
| obtainable by telephone connection, it hav-
| ing been re-established this afternoon. The
| property loss in the track of the cyclone is
| estimated at over $100,000.
MANY OTHERS KILLED.
| Later reports say a man named Charles
| Cadlin and his four children, Mike, Susie, :
Lillian and Charles, were killed. His wife
| and two sons, William and Dean, are also
badly injured, the former probably fatally.
Five persons are known to be killed at
Mingo.
The storm occurred between 9 and 10
o'clock, accompanied by a deafening roar,
a deluge of rain and hail. Its track was
several miles in length and from a quarter
| to half a mile in width. A great amount
of livestock was killed and the crops in the
path of the storm utterly destroyed. It is
| not likely the railroad will be repaired so
| that traffic can be resumed for several days.
: The district traveled by the storm is very
[ fertile. It is settled with well-to-do farm-
| ers and villagers, :
| Timber and dead stock are strewn over
| the path of the storm in all directions. A
| number of persons are still missing in addi-
| tion to those reported killed and injured.
At Manchester the cyclone left a track of
| eight miles in length in ruins. Mrs. Ira
{ Howland and William Murray were ser-
!iously injured.
At Elmo the town is almost a lake. At
Alta Vista a man was killed and two child-
ren badly hurt.
The Storm In Illinois.
Much Property Destroyed and Many Killed Through-
out the State.
RoCKFORK, Ill., May 25.—Four killed
and many injured, a number of them fatal-
ly, is the result of the cyclone which swept
through this section last night at midnight,
besides great loss to property and the com-
plete ruin of ‘crops in the path of the
storm.
Mrs. Godfrey Hildebrand, living near
| Monroe, was beheaded while going down
cellar to escape the storm. ' Her daughter
Elsie was also instantly killed, and her
husband, who was a prominent Grand
Army man, is dead from injuries received.
Six others asleep in the house were blown
across the street and injured. The house
was completely demolished.
Near Egan City Mrs. Izora Bird was .in-
stantly killed and her five children badly
injured, two probably fatally. Near Leaf
River Mr. and Mrs. George Garner were
both seriously injured. :
At Egan City the rain which accompa-
nied the wind was the heaviest in years, and
all creeks are far out of their banks. Hail
as large as hickory nuts also fell in great
quantity, stripping trees of foliage and lev-
eling crops. = Every building in the path of
the cyclone was demolished and much live
‘stock killed.
At Elgin John Keogh, engineer of the
state insane asylum, was killed by a fall-
ing chimney.
The Elgin sewing machine and bicycle
factory was blown down and many farm
buildings were leveled. The small-pox pa-
tients on the edge of the city had a terrible
experience. Every tent was blown away
and the patients, after several narrow es-
capes from death from flying debris, suc-
ceeded in finding shelter in an old cabin,
where they were found.
At Monroe Centre, DeKalb county, two
women, mother and daughter, names un-
known, were killed, the daughter's head
being severed from her body.
At Galena the storm caused a loss of
$100,000. The rainfall was terrific. Mrs.
R. D. Strickland was drowned in her
home.
Thirteen Lives Lost.
CAlro, Ills., May 27.—A hurricane and
cloudburst struck this place at 8:30 o’clock.
Thirteen lives were lost by the sinking of
the ferryboat Katharina.
¥
A Great Fire at Lewistown.
After a great many fruitless attempts in-
cendiaries succeeded in starting a large
fire in Lewistown last Thursday night. It
burned the whole district between Brown,
Dorcas and Water streets and the alley
save the Keystone hotel and four dwellings
on Brown street. The burned buildings
were : Witman Schwarz & Co’s wholesale
grocery house, Franciscus’s lumber yard
and warehouse, eight stables, with most of
their contents, eleven dwelling houses and
a portion of their contents, and a hlack-
smith and coach shop.
The fire started in Franciscus’ ware
house among some pine window frames and
in a few minutes reached the oil depart-
ment when an explosion occurred and the
thing went. :
The firemen turned out promptly, but
were rendered almost powerless by a lack
of water and a breaking of the fire engine.
The laddies had only the locomotive with
fire apparatus attached to depend on and it
did good service until the fire engine was
repaired. .
Aid was sent from Mifflin and Hunting-
don, the former getting on the ground and
ready for work the latter being stopped and
sent back before arriving. :
The flames were beyond control until 2
o’clock Friday morning, when headway was
made against them and all danger was past.
The heaviest losers are ‘Witman,
Schwarz & Co., $10.000, P. Dreyer, $7,000;
F. G. Franciscus estate, $7,500; Wm.
Uhrush, $3,500, and lesser amounts to var-
ious other parties. The total loss will foot
up $50,000, with an insurance of $50.000.
The incendiaries started the fire in four
other places in different parts of town dur-
ing the evening, two of which burned
slightly, but were put out without any
damage. A reward of five hundred dollars
is offered for the arrest and conviction of |
the parties, and descriptions of them have
been sent out over the country.
Port Matilda Pointers.
After a protracted dry spell we had a re-
freshing rain last Tuesday morning.
Rev. Minnich delivered an appropriate
memorial sermon to quite a large congrega-
tion on last Sunday evening there being
a large number of old soldiers present.
Rev. J. C. Young and bride returned from
their wedding tour last Thursday. While
away they visited Washington, where they
shook hands with President Cleveland and
took a peep at Congress. Our band serenaded
them during their stay and on Friday they
left for their new home at Three Springs,
Huntingdon county.
We are still reminded that there are some
offices to fill in Centre county this fall as we
have our daily quota of three or four
candidates. - Three of them made their
appearance in front of your corres-
pondent’s place of business on last Wednes-
day morning and were holding a council of
swag when the hotel bell rang for breakfast
but they left and did not return to make
our acquaintance.
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All Through Brush Valley.
Deputy Sheriff Weaver was in Rebersburg.
last Saturday. .
Miss Minnie Conser. of Loganton, was in
our valley last Sunday.
Dr. Gutilius and wife, of Millheim, speng
Sunday in Rebersburg.
Frederick Fell, from Clearfield county, was |
at home over Sunday.
Mr. Diehl and wife of Centre Mills, visited
Sugar valley this week.
Last week another steam shingle mill was
erected at Kreamerville.
Samuel Gramley, J. C. Smull, and T. E.
Royer, were in Belletonte last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Simon Harper, and son were
the guests of Mr. George Weaver.
Jesse Long, and son, and ex-squire Harvey
Corman, were in Lock Haven, last week.
George Winters transacted business in Cen-
tre Hall and Tusseyville last Saturday.
Daniel Weaver, J. R. Wolf, acd John Wolf,
attended court at Lock Haven, last week.
Miss Sadie Ehrhart, of Lock Haven, is
spending a few days with her friends in
Rebersburg.
The Ladies Aid society, of the Rebersburg
Reformed church, will hold an ice cream
festival on Decoration day.
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Kerstetter and Mr.
Warren Bierly, from Franklin county, are
visiting friends at Rebersburg.
Mr. Alexander and Mr. Leyman, the re-
spective candidates for recorder and sheriff,
were through our village last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gramley and Miss
Winifred Wolf, are attending the Lutheran
Sunday school convention at Mifflinburg.
Sup’t. C. L. Gramley started out last Mon-
day morning fora five week siege of ex-
aminations. The examination at Rebers:
burg is on June 22nd.
Benjamin Lembert and wife, of Gregg
township, visited C. H. Smull’s last Sunday.
Samuel Loose was in Spring Mills last
week, calling on T. M. Gramley.
William Mingle and David Meyer, of Cen-
tre Hall, had an unsuccessful cattle sale “at
Rebersburg last Saturday afternoon. They
had fine Jersey stock, but McKinleyism has
already effected the cattle market. .
Decoration day services will be held at
Madisonburg in the forenoon, and at Rebers-
burg in the afternoon. J. L. Spangler, of
Bellefonte, it 1s reported 1s to address the
soldiers. The other services are to be as
usual. A game of base ball will be played at
Rebersburg in the afternoon:
Memorial services were conducted by Rev.
Mumma in the Rebersburg Lutheran church,
last Sunday morning. The soldiers of this
place and Penns valley, came together and
formed quite a body with the old flag and
their badges a flying. The discourse on pa-
triotism was good. The quartette, Messrs.
Clement Gramley, Orris Walker, Henry
Brumgart and Harry Royer was very good,
and the song by Miss Alma Gramley, Miss
Lula Ehrhart, Claude Haines, and Mr.
Bierly was very fine and correctly rendered.
The Lutheran Birthday social last Satur-
day evening at Rebersburg, was quite a suc-
cess, The exercisesin the upper room, which
consisted of recitations and dialogues by the
little folks and music by a male quartette,
were very good and much appreciated. The
people were afterwards cordially invited to
partake of ices and cake in the lower room
where the little bags containing as many
pennies as years of age were collected. Fifty
six dollarsand some cents were realized. How
many old maids and bachelors paid for their
years ?
Howard Happenings.
Claude Moore, of Bellefonte, spent Sunday
with his friends.
The handle factory of Poulson & Reber is
running full time.
at Pittsburg, last week.
R. P. Long and wife, transacted business in
Lock Haven, this week.
J. L. DeHass our land-lord is able to enter-
tain his guests in good style.
W. E. Confer, our genial barber, has added
a restaurant and confectionary to his line.
Mr. A. Schenck and wife spent Sunday, in
Jacksonville, at the home of William Long.
Howard's base ball club, will hold a festival,
on May 30th, and a match game during the
afternoon.
Mrs. W. R. Hopkin’s and daughter Maud
left here, this week, for Md. where they ex-
pect to spend the summer
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F. B. Stover has been here this week, look-
ing up his political friends. Mr. Musser had
hiseye upon the same specimens of humanity.
The Presbyterians of this community, have
been holding services every two weeks, in the
Methodist church, of this place. This is cer-
tainly a step towards universalism.
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Pine Grove Mention.
Carriage maker Myers and wife Sundayed
with Warrior's Mark folks.
Blacksmsth Eckley is pleased over the ar-
rival of a little girl. She is number 10.
The party of angiers, who spent several days
along the mountain streams last week, caught
495 of the finny tribe. J. Baker Krebs still
i has his fighting temper on for the fellow who
borrowed his share and forgot to return them
in time for breakfast.
| Prof. J. Albert Ward, of Salina, Kansas,
| has obtained a sixiy days leave of absence
| from his educational work, which evidently
| agrees with him as he wears a 20 inch collar
and tips the beam at 335 pounds. During
his vacation he expects to visit many of his
Centre county friends, but will give most of
his time to his aged mother Mrs. Joseph Ward
of Main street. It is thirteen years
since he went away and in that time he has
gained success as well as pounds.
Last Sunday evening Rev. Hepler preach-
ed the memorial sermon to a large and ap-
| preciative audience. His subject was Paul's
“‘entreaty to be a good soldier.” He pictured
a united and grateful people honoring the
many who had fought for the country. He
reminded his hearers that some of the
social questions of to-day require as much
courage and determination as ever the war
did. He talked fifty minutes and so interested
his audience that they would gladly have
| listened fifty minutes longer.
| An interesting meeting of the Pomona
grange took place Tuesday evening, the 26th,
at the Washington grange hall. A most in-
| telligent looking body it was, composed of
| professors, farmers and women fair. Good
music was rendered by the choir under the
leadership of William Grove, master of Prog-
ress grange, with Miss Marshall as organist.
The entire session was given up to the discus-
| sion of topics interesting to the rural dis-
tricts. Some spicy little speeches were made
on the ways of education, Col. Jas. F. Wea-
ver offered a resolution that passed unani-
mously. It asked that a committee of three
be appointed to inquire into the expenditure
of the state appropriation. If possible to
secure a moxe equal distribution throughout
the State and instead of a continuous term of
six mouths to empower the boards in certain
districts to have five months winter and two
months summer school. The resolution de-
plored that country children did not have
the advantages of town or city schools and
asked that there be some move to equalize
country and town schools.
HArPILY WEDDED.—Oscar M. Bowersox
and Leander Bailey Ewing, both of Fair-
brook, launched their love boat on the deep
sea of matrimony last Tuesday evening at
the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Hezekiah Ewing. The wedding was a very
pleasant and well arranged affair. Promptly
at seven o'clock the bridal couple appeared
before Rev. Ermintrout with Miss Nannie
Campbell as maid of honor, and Elmer Bow-
ersox, the groom’s brother, as best man,
Scores of well wishers were present to extend
hearty congratulations and to enjoy the
bountiful hospitality. The bride, the third
daughter of Hezckiah Ewing, is bright and
capable of making a happy life. The groom
who is the third son of Frank Bowersox is
an industrious and energetic man. To these
two, who have promised to share each others
joys and sorrows, the trials of life will come
and perhaps calamities, but Icve that reveals
its fidelity and fortitude in the time of troub-
le will enable them to bear the burdens easi-
ly for two are always better than one.
The way you tread may not be smooth,
Nor always fine the weather,
But stones don’t trip nor storms upset
When two stand firm together.
JoHN W. RIDER.—Another old soldier
answered the last roll call shortly after mid-
night on Friday, the 22nd, after suffering with
paralysis for six years, During the last two
years he was entirely helpless but retained
~his faculties until within a few days of his
death when he became unconscious. He was
one of Gatesburg’s oldest and best known
citizens. His entire life, 75 years and 2
months, was spent there with the exception of
the three years he did active service in Com-
pany E. 45, regiment P. V. After the war he
followed carpentery and the fine house of
Samuel Harpster was the last work he en-
gaged in. For more than sixty years he had
been an active member of the Methodist
church. He was a member of the W. IL
Furst G. A. R. Post at Stormstown which at-
tended his funeral in a body under the com-
mand of Wm. Bailey. At the funeral, on
Sunday at 2 o’clock, six of his old ‘company
carried his body to the grave which was almost
filled with flowers. Rev. Singer conducted
the services and preached the sermon in con-
nection with the regular memorial services.
His two sisters Mrs. Merryman, of Hannah
Furnace, and Mrs. Whippo, of Oil City, both
over 82 years of age survive him as do his
wife and the following children. Mrs. J.
Myers, of Pittsburg, Mrs. W. Devore; of
Warriors Mark, Mrs. H. Barr, of Gatesburg,
W.K.; J. W.; and Samuel T. Rider.
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