Demorralic Watchman
Bellefonte, Pa, Oct. 9, 1896.
To CorresroNDENTS.—No communications pub-
ished unless accompanied by the real name of
the writer.
THINGS ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTY
——There is considerable typhoid fever in
and about Philipsburg.
——Miss Minnie Brew will open her
dancing school, in Tyrone, this evening.
——Joseph W. Hubbard, of Beech Creek,
is suffering with a slight stroke of paralysis.
——Jake Jury, Anderson’s chef, is hap-
py all over. A new girl has come to his
house.
‘We are sorry that sickness has over-
taken editor Tuten, of the Republican He
is at home seriously ill.
——Asher Adams, fireman on the Lewis-
burg local freight, has a new helper. He
is a wee bit small and arrived on Tuesday.
——The Philipsburg High school and
Bellefonte Academy foot ball teams will
play on the Hecla grounds, Saturday after-
noon, Oct. 17th.
Evangelists Weaver and Weeden
are drawing larger crowds than ever at
Lock Haven. Their work is reported to he
truly wonderful.
——Because rag weeds are unusually
high those who think signs and omens are
to be relied upon say that we are going to
have a hard winter, with plenty of deep
Snow.
——Catharine M. Harkness, mother of
Mrs. Robert Irvin, of this place, died at
her home, in Altoona, last Saturday morn-
ing. She Had been an invalid for several
years,
——Mr. G. W. Lonbarger, a farmer who
lives up on top of Nittany mountain, above
Pleasant Gap, was stricken with paralysis
a few days ago, and is now perfectly help-
less. His left side is affected.
——Burglars entered the homes of Mrs.
Osman, David Boozer, Dr. John Alexander
and Mrs. Anna Van Pelt, in Centre Hall,
on Wednesday night. Nothing of value
was taken from any of the places.
—Rt. Rev. Thos. McGovern, bishop of
the Harrisburg diocese, will be here, on
Sunday, October 11th, to administer the
sacrament of confirmation to a large class
in St. John’s “atholic church, on Bishop
street.
——The Street committee of Bellefonte’s
council a generous, know-what-to-do
body of gentlemen. They have fixed up
the street in front of the editor's home.
This is likely to be only a temporary opin-
ion.
——The junior McKinley and Hobart
club paraded, on Saturday night, in all the
glory of their new regalia. There was quite
a number of boys and they made a very
pretty spectacle with their capes and caps
gleaming under flaring torches.
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——Ralph Bingham who is one of the
most remarkable characters on the Ameri-
can platform, as he is a humorist, imper-
sonator, violinist and journalist and first
class as each, will appear in the Methodist
church, on Monday evening, Oct. the 26th.
—One of the most satisfactory im-
provements that has been made on Al-
legheny street for a long time has been the
new pavement in front of the Zeller prop-
erty. A better grade has been establish-
ed there and the corner very much im-
proved.
———The many friends of Rev. Geo. P.
Sarvis, who was so popular as a minister in
this county, will be sorry to learn that he
was seriously ill with typhoid fever. He is
located at Hustontown, Fulton county. A
report, yesterday, was to the effect that he
was out of danger.
——Mis. Robert Gilmore invites you to
be present at her opening of fall and winter
millinery on Wednesday, October the 14th.
She is just home from New York with a
choice selection of the latest bonnets, hats
and trimmings and you cannot help being
pleased with the choice and prices.
—— ‘Sowing the Wind,” that had been
billed for Garman’s to-morow evening, will
not be here. Owing to the fact that the
company had to jump from here to Wheel-
ing, W. Va., for the next stand it had to
cancel. The early train to Tyrone being
a thing of the past is the cause of failure to
make connections that would get the com- |
pany through.
——Governor and Mis. D. H. Hastings
celebrated the nineteenth anniversary of
their wedding by entertaining a few of
their friends on Saturday night. Among
the party were Attorney General and Mrs.
McCormick, of Williamsport; Mr. and Mrs. |
John P. Harris, Col. and Mrs. W. F. Reeder,
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Malin, Mrs. James H.
Rankin and Miss Bella Rankin.
— Invitations have been issued for the
marriage of Herbert De I. Meek and Miss
Nannie M. Campbell, which will be con-
summated at the home of Miss Campbell’s
parents, at Fairbrook, on Thursday, Octo-
ber 22nd. Mr. Meek is the eldest son of
D. L. Meek, of Waddle’s, and is in the
drug business at State College. His affian-
ced bride is a daughter of ex-commissioner
Henry C. Campbell.
— Furst G. Crider, of this place, who
had gone to a Philadelphia hospital to put
himself under treatment for pulmonary
trouble, was given ‘‘knock-out’’ drops by
two make-befieve acquaintances who met
him on the street. They then robbed him
of a combination card case and some mon-
ey. The men were afterwards arrested
and Crider was taken to the Medico-Chirur- |
gical hospital for treatment. He returned |
to his home, here, on Wednesday.
THE BURGLAR SHOT AT HiM.—Banker
Chas. F. Cook, of North Spring street, had
a thrilling experience with a burglar who
entered his house last Tuesday night and
left the ball from a 28 cal. revolver as a
grim reminder of his visit.
Mr. Cook wassleeping by himself in a
second floor room, about the middle of the
house, and was awakened by the man en-
tering his room from the first landing of
thestairs. The baby of the family was
asleep in its crib between the bed and the
door and a dim light was burning. Mr.
Cook’s dresser stood within a few feet of
the door and the man had his hands on it
when the sleeper awoke and jumped for
him. The crib was in the way, so by the
time Mr. Cook had reached the door the
burglar had jumped down the two steps on-
to the landing, where he stumbled and,
fearing he would be overtaken, turned and
deliberately fired on his pursuer. The bul-
let struck to the right and about a foot
above Mr. Cook’s head. It flattened out
against the hard wood paneling in the stair
case and is now in possession of the man
who was intended to have it. ‘
After the shot Mr. Cook retired to leave
the fellow have as free egress as he had had
ingress. Entry had been made through a
window in the north side of the house.
The entire downstairs had heen ransacked,
but nothing is missing.
The man wore a black derby hat,a brown
coat, dark gray trousers and was in his
bare feet. Mr. Cook is not sure as to
whether he wore a mask. He was over
the average height and slight. The im-
press of his bare feet could be seen on the
porch and up along Spring to West Curtin
street. Mr. Cook thinks he could identify
the man and is of the opinion that it was
the same fellow who entered Hon. S. R.
Peale’s house, in Lock Haven, on Mon-
day night, and fired at that gentle-
man because he had dared to get awake
and inquire who was in his room.
F. W. Crider’s house and the house of
John T. Johnston, on East Linn street,
were also entered, Tuesday night, but the
burglar did not reach the second floor in
either place.
Five years ago Cook’s house was entered
and Crider’s also. The night before there
had been robberies in Lock Haven and Ty-
rone was visited the following night.
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BELLEFONTE’S COUNCIL—ITS DOINGS.
—The regular semi-monthly meeting of
the borough council was held, on Monday
evening, with only six members present.
The business was taken up as follows :
The Street committee reported work on
on various streets and alleys, the damage
done by recent storms, the cleaning of sew-
ers and the satisfactory testing of the new
stone crusher. With a belt that kept con-
tinually slipping 66 tons were crushed in a
day. It was decided to make another trial
before purchasing.
The Water committee reported that
Miller Bros., had been awarded the con-
tract for putting a slate roof on the water
works. - Their bid was to furnish and lay
the albion black slate for $6.75 per square.
The committee also reported that Wm.
Clark wants the water service extended to
his property on east Howard street. Com-
mittee was instructed to take the matter
under advisement. Peter Mendes, of east
High street, asked for an extension to his
place. Council moved that a § inch pipe
be laid. Henry Wetzel asked that water
be extended to his building site on the ex-
treme east end of Linn street. Council or-
dered that a 1 inch pipe be laid for the dis-
tance of 510 feet, but if property owners
would contributea 4 in. pipe would be laid.
Council has no right to ask the property
holders of east Linn street to contribute
to paying for a water system for which they
are already taxed. If it is necessary to lay
a 4 in. out there it should be laid and paid
for just the same as the 12in. pipe that was
laid on High street two years ago. Itis
the property holders of Bellefonte who
are handcapped by outrageous taxes and
for council to want to impose on them
in this way is an injustice that. the peo-
ple of east Linn street should not encour-
age hy making a precedent.
The Market committee reported the col-
lection of $7.20 in license fees.
Coungil instructed the Street committee
to confer with the county commis-
sioners regarding repairs to the south
side of High street, at the court house, as
the county agreed to bear a third of the
expense of repairs.
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No TUBERCULOSIS THERE. —S. P. Hen-
nigh, a farmer who resides near Potter's
Mills, recently believed that his herd of cat-
tle were affected with tuberculosis and
wrote Dr. Leonard Pearson, state veteri-
narian, to such effect. The latter did not
have time to make a personal test of the
herd, but telegraphed Dr. I. M. Bush, of
this place, to go and do it.
The latter made the test of Mr. Hen-
nigh’s sixteen head, on Tuesday night, and
found no indications that any of them were
affected as feared.
The test is made by first taking the tem-
perature of the cattle, then inoculating
them with tuberculin. The effect the in-
oculation has on the temperature shows the
presence or absence of the disease germs.
Dr. Bush assisted Dr. Pearson when the
Pennsylvania State College dairy herd was
tested two years ago.
MoRrE WORK OF INCENDIARIES.—The
torch of the incendiary is being applied
too frequently for the comfort of Nittany
valley folks. Already a number of fires
have originated from this cause and, on
last Thursday evening, the barn and con-
tent,s owned by Geo. Pifer, three miles
north of Clintondale, was totally destroyed.
The fire was undoubtedly of incendiary
origin. He had inurance in the Sugar Val-
| ley mutual company.
——Tyrone is to have a shoe factory.
So far the project is only on paper.
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— Mrs. Eliza McKibben, of Parvin,
who has been suffering with cancer so long,
was stricken with paralysis, last Sunday.
She is now in an unconscious conditition.
——Blair county had $1,489.34 over af-
ter all the expenses of her recent semi-cen-
tennial celebration were paid. The bal-
ance was donated to the Altoona hospital.
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——The excursion from Williamsport
to Canton was fizzled out. Not enough
people could be secured in that place and
Jersey Shore and Lock Haven to make up
the number required by the rail-road com-
pany for a special train.
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——Men’s all wool cheviot and dress
suits from $4 to $18—LyoN & Co.
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——MHenry Reid, of Clintondale, suffered
a stroke of paralysis, last Sunday, and is
now in a critical condition. For thirty-
five years he has been in the employ of the
W. A. White milling company, having had
charge of their store and general business.
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——The Harrison telephone company,
Topeka, Kas., has been sold by the sheriff.
The venture is said to have cost $45,000
and brought at the sale $8,000, bid by E.
A. Rosier, who held a judgment of $11,000.
The local Bell company now owns the
plant and will close it up October 1st.
-—Burglars entered four Lock Haven
houses last Monday night. At the home of
ex-Senator S. R. Peale that gentleman was
awakened and when he sat up in bed to see
what was the matter the burglar flashed a
dark lantern on him and, discharging his
revolver, fled.
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Boy’sand youths’ overcoats, in plain
and mixed cloths, from $1.98 up to $12.—
Lyox & Co.
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——DMichael Sexton only saved himself
from being burned up by jumping from a
second story window of his house, in Ty-
rone, early Tuesday morning. He was in
the house alone and was awakened by. fire
in his bed. His house was almost totally
destroyed by the flames.
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——If any one imagined that the elec-
tric light doesn’t cut a pretty respectable
figure in the comfort of Bellefonte it re-
mained for Tuesday evening’s experience
to convince him of the error. The town
seemed as sepulchral as the grave until
about eight o'clock, when the lights were
turned on. Some repairs at the works made
it impossible to start earlier. The stygian
blackness was a reminder of how things
used tobe and the sickly glare of an occa-
sional lantern only tended to aggravate
people who were stumbling about on the
streets.
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CAMPAIGN BALL.—The Coleville band
will hold a campaign ball, in the armory
of Co. B., this place, on Friday evening,
October 23rd. Everyone is invited to go
and help the musicians.
The Coleville boys are deserving of lib-
eral patronage. They are liberal with their
music and our people have now an oppor-
tunity to makesome return. See that it is
done.
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A GREAT DAY For DEMOCRACY—Next
Thursday Penn’s and Brush valleys will
have one of the greatest political gather-
ings ever witnessed in Democratic old Cen-
tre. There will be day and night meet-
ings at Millheim and an ox roast to enter-
tain the people between times.
It has been a long time since an old fash-
ioned barbecue lias been made in this coun-
ty, so every effort is being put forth to
have a glorious time.
Hon Geo. A. Jenks, of Brookville, and
Col. J. L. Spangler, Democratic nominee for
Congress, will speak at the afternoon’ meet-
ing. Inthe evening other men of promi-
nence will be there to discuss current po-
litical issues.
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Hicks’ OcToBER WEATHER.—Rev. Ira
R. Hicks, the famous St. Louis prognosti-
cator, has issued his predictions for Qcto-
ber weather. As he predicted the heavy
storm of Tuesday night, we had better take
his forecast as reliable. The month opens
in the midst of a Vulcan and Mercury
storm period and unsettled weather will
reign until the 6th or 8th. Fair weather is
due on the 11th. Then follows the regu-
lar storm period from the 12th to the 19th.
A reactionary period will extend from the
19th to the 22nd, after which the weather
will become warmer. Another storm peri-
od will prevail from the 23rd to the 26th.
A reactionary period will ensue from the
29th to the end of the month.
Rev. Hicks says that, taken on the
whole, October will be pleasant for out
door pursuits.
DEATH OF MAUD MEYER.—On Tuesday
morning, Maud Olive, the little ten year
year old danghter of Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Meyer, died at their home, on Spring street,
after many months of suffering and sick-
ness. A year or two ago, after a severe at-
tack of the grip, the glands of her neck be-
gan to enlarge and while the doctors did not
offer any encouragement they did not give
up hope. She was taken to Philadelphia
where an operation was performed and
there the opinion was the same : that the
growth would come again and eventually
cause her death. She was the youngest of
Mr. and Mrs. Meyers’ children and her
death will be a great sorrow to her parents
and sister, for she had a bright, happy dis-
position and was a sweet, lovable child.
Thursday afternoon after the funeral ser;
vices her body was taken, on the 2:15 train,
to Aaronsburg for burial in the family
burying ground. z
been at work for some weeks past.
SoME FACTS ABOUT THE SYNOD NEXT
WEEK.—The annual sitting of the Synod
of the Presbyterian church for Pennsylva-
nia and West Virginia is making more
busy housewives in Bellefonte, just now,
than any other cause. A great number of
ministers will be here on the 15th and the
large majority of them will be entertained
in private families. The coming of such a
ministerial body cannot but bring good to
any community and there will be plenty of
righteous seeds sown by the visitors, next
week, in soil that might now be considered
barren.
There is no under rating the influence a
christian teacher can exert when he is tak-
en into the inner circles of a family for a
short time. It isa pleasure to have such
men with you. Bellefonte’s past exper-
ience with the gatherings of ministers of
various denominations has been such that
she looks forward to the advent of the Pres-
byterians with actual gladness.
The Pennsylvania Synod is one of the
largest delegated ecclesiastical bodies in the
world, embracing all of the Keystone
State, West Virginia and the missions of
West Africa Zacatecas, Mexico. It hasa
representation of 1,071 ministers, 1,184
churches and 197,491 members, with an av-
erage Sunday school attendance of 207,
228. The Synod will be made up of 116
ministerial and 94 elder delegates. Eleven
years ago the Synod met in Bellefonte.
The present officers of the Synod are : Mod-
erator Rev. John V. Stockton, D. D., Erie,
Pa. ; vice moderator Rev. Samuel W.
Miller, D. D., Saltsburg ; stated clerk and
treasurer, Rev. Robert Hunter, D. D., of
Philadelphia ; permanent clerk, Rev. John
J. Beacom, Pittsburg.
The programme of arrangements for the
Bellefonte meeting provides for the open-
ing of the same by devotional services and
the moderator’s sermon. Following the
calling of the roll and the choice of tempo-
rary clerks, the first business of importance
will be the election of moderator and other
officers for the ensuing year. The report
of the committee of arrangements which
consists of Rev. William Laurie, D. D., and
elders Genl. James A. Beaver, James Har-
ris, Austin O. Furst, J. C. Weaver, George
L. Potter and Samuel Sheffer, will follow
the election of officers, after which the new-
ly chosen moderator will name his commit-
tees.
The remainder of Thursday morning will
be taken up by the call of Presbyteries
for the presentation of their records.
Thursday afternoon will be devoted to
the report of the committee on synodical
sustentation. The sustentation work of
the Synod is among its largest labors.
During 1895 there was expended in this
work about $30,000, aiding over one hun-
dred ministers and a like number of
churches. The amount of money expend-
ed was even less than the demand, and the
committee for 1896 undertook to increase
the contributions one half. The order of
business provides for the holding of a popu-
lar meeting Thursday evening in the inter-
est of this branch of the work.
The first order, on Friday morning, will
be the hearing of reports of - committees on
the various literary institutions. These
include Lafayette college, Lincoln univer-
sity, Pennsylvania college for women,
Washington and Jefferson college, Western
Theological seminary and the Wilson fe-
male college. No little interest will cen-
tre in the report of the special committee
appointed to raise the sum of $100,000 for
the endowment of a new professorship in
the Western Theological seminary. The
committee is composed of Rev Harvey
Graeme Furbay, chairman ; Rev. David
R. Breed, Rev. V. Stockton, Rev. R. H.
Fulton and elders, Judge J. P. Sterrett, S.
S. Marvin and S. P. Harbison. The re-
mainder of the time Friday morning will
‘be taken up with the necrological report.
The remairitler or the work of the Synod
will consist in the hearing of the various
reports of committees, of which there is a
large number. The report of the special
committee on the transfer of the Reading
churches from the Lehigh to the North
Philadelphia Presbytery may occasion
some little diversion. Throughout the
Synod there was contributed for home mis-
sions the enormous sum of $210,910, for
foreign missions $178,584, education $28,-
998, Sunday school work $30,853, church
erection $51,863, relief fund $36,085, freed
men $36,986, synodical aid $21,630, aid for
colleges $18,835, general assembly $18,688,
congregational $2,195,351 miscellaneous
$217,303 ; a total of $3,042,303. In addi-
tion to the above the Sunday schools con-
tributed to the various branches of work
$109,100, making a total of $3,211,210.
The above more plainly than anything else
shows the magnitude of the work done for
the cause of the Christian religion by the
Presbyterians of Pennsylvania and West
Virginia. In the entire field there are 24
Presbyteries, and of this,number Philadel-
phia is the largest with 139 ministsrs, 74
churches, 32,546 members, and contribu-
tions amounting to $667,675, or a little
more than one-fifth of all the money raised
in the Synod. Pittsburg is ngxt in rank
with 99 ministers, 71 churches, 18,046
members and contributions aggregating
$363,655. The total of money raised in
the Philadelphia and Pittsburg Presbyter-
ies is over one-third of the entire amount
contributed. The smallest Presbytery in
the Synod is Wellsboro, withbut 14 minis-
ters, 17 churches and 1,384 members.
The committee of arrangements has most
everything in readiness for the gathering
in this place. The synod will be held in
the Presbyterian church, which has a cap-
acity of seating 900 or more. Every ar-
rangement has been made for the enter-
tainment of the delegates. For this pur-
pose the following committee of ladies has
Ms.
Austin O. Furst, Mrs. John P. Harris, Mrs.
George L. Potter, Mrs. Wilson, Miss Mira
Humes and Mrs. Wm. Laurie.
Though the committee has been hard at
work on assigning the visitors places there
is very little settled, as yet. It is not
known exactly who will be here and even
the partial assignment has been changed so
much that no satisfaction could be gath-
red from it as late as last night.
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——While Frank Tate was hauling
pumpkins into Harrison Kline’s barn, in
Spring township, one day last week, the
barn floor gave way and both horses fell
through ; only "the cross’ logs supporting
them. One was lifted out with a pole, but
the other did a kind of giant swing around
the timber and landed on its back on a
pile of pumpkins in the stable below.
Neither animal was much hurt.
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Post OFFICE ROBBERS FOUND GUILTY.
—Charles Gray and William May, of Phila-
delphia, and Howard Smith, of Kentucky,
were convicted of robbing the post office at
Snow Shoe, on June 7th, before the United
States circuit court in session at Williams-
port. -
The men were arrested at Snow Shoe
Intersection with a fourth man, William
Meyers, who was afterwards discharged
They robbed the post office on Sunday
morning and secured $100 in stamps, after
blowing the safe.
On July 18th part of the stamps were
recovered, with some stamped envelopes,
from a stone fence on the farm of James
Gates, near Snow Shoe, where a toad led
the way to the discovery by some small
children who were chasing it.
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STATE'S HARD GAME.—The Pennsyl-
vania State College foot ball team didn’t
Lave things all their own way, on Beaver
field, last Saturday afternoon. The West-
ern University of Pennsylvonia eleven,
from Pittsburg, were there under ‘‘Gener-
al’’ Hoskins and at more than one time
during the game it looked as if State’s col-
ors would be black and blue, instead of the
gayer combination that designates her
brawny athletes from those of other insti-
tutions.
The game was exciting when Mr. Hos-
kins didn’t delay it by kicking and that
was so often that the crowd really forgot
how the plays were being made from one
line up to the next, as every scrimmage
would evolve the hobbling ‘‘General’’ with
red face and hand raised in protest of some
imaginary advantage that had been taken
of him or his team.
State scored two touchdowns and kicked
one goal, while the visitors were able to
score one touch down on a blocked kicked
by Thompson. The visitors were a gentle-
manly lot of players and while they had
hopes of winning, yet they were quite well
satisfied that the score should have been
only 10 to 4 against them.
State’s team is strong on defensive and
aggressive play, but is away off in hand-
ling the ball. From the way it slipped
away from them one almost imagined it to
have been made from the skin of the
greased pig every one chased at State Col-
lege, last fourth of July.
Tomorrow Dickinson will play at the
College. There will be several changes in
the make up of the team that will be cal-
culated to strengthen it. Two new men
will appear.
News Purely Personal.
—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cooke, of Philadelphia,
are visiting friends in Bellefonte.
—Dr. Joseph M. Brockerhoff, of Pittsburg, was
in town over Sunday, visiting his mother.
—Mrs. Claude Jones and baby son were here,
over Sunday, at Mrs, Jones’ father’s house, that
of Mr. Monroe Armor, on east Linn street.
—Misses Maggie and Rhoda Potter, two of Lin-
den Hall's most intelligent and useful women,
were in town, yesterday, on a pleasure and inves-
tigating expedition.
—Mrs. S. A. Brew and her son Tom, who spent
Sunday with friends at their old home, returned
to Mahanoy City on Tuesday. Tom, who always
was one of the nicest of boys, is well pleased with
his work at Delano, and Mrs. Brew is well and
contented in their new home at Mahanoy City.
—Dr. Thomas C. VanTries, of Blairsville, In-
diana county, spent the fore part of the week’ in
Bellefonte. Though the doctor has been away
from here for several years he still has some in-
terests here that occasionally require his at-
tention and afford ,an-opportunity for his old
friends to make him realize that Bellefonte has
not forgotten him.
—John A. Daly Esq, and his son C. E., were in
town on Tuesday afternoon,) The latter isthe Re-
publican chairman in Curtin township and ought
to make a good one, if the schooling his father
has undoubtedly given him counts for anything.
With all their Republicanism, however, both men
are companionable and always ready to lend their
aid to any plan for a good time.
—Mrs. Belle Elliot, who has been spending the
summer with her brother and sister in this place,
leaves for her home in Knoxville, Tenn., to-day.
She has lived South until she is a veritable South-
erner in opinions and agreeableness, and her vis-
its are always enjoyed and anticipated. Mrs.
Henry Harris, her sister-in-law will go with her
as far as Radford, Va., where they will visit Mrs.
Galway, Mrs. Harris’ only daughter.
—Miss Mabel Faunble, the third daughter of Mr.
Martin Faubel, of East High street, will leave for
New York, on Monday. Thence she will sail
for Berlin on the red star liner Friesland. Miss
Fauble is going abroad for the purpose of com-
pleting her musical education. She will accom-
pany her former instructress, Miss Doran, of Lock
Haven, and the two will spend a year in Berlin
before returning. Miss Fauble is a very talented
girl and purposes making music a life study.
—The Warcuman office had a very agreeable
caller, on Monday morning, in the person of Mr.
E. 8. Bierly, of Rebersburg, a brother of our
versatile correspondent in Brush valley. The
young man was in town attending to a little busi-
ness and dropped in to see if we had anything
new on the silver side. It would be hard to be
ahead of these young men as they have been re-
markably active and earnest in the people's
cause, on the other side of the mountain. Mr.
Bierly is a graduate of the New Berlin college and
is a young man well equipped for almost any busi-
ness undertaking. It would seem from the ap-
pearanee of the marriage license docket that he
is going to undertake something important very
soon.
Herp Up NEAR PHILIPSBURG.—The
Philipsburg Journal gives the following ac-
count of how John B. Stonebraker, of Rush
township, was held up and robbed, near
that place, last Thursday night. ‘John B.
Stonebraker, ex-supervisor of Rush town-
ship, whois well known in Philipsburg,
was waylaid and brutally assaulted by
some, as yet, unknown person or persons
on Thursday night, near the Osceola bridge.
He had delivered a cow to a resident of
Osceola and received $20 in payment for
the same. He visited some of *the hotels
during the evening, drinking with friends,
and started on his way homeward about 1t
o’clock, having, however, left the balance
of his money with a friend in Osceola.
Shortly after crossing the bridge, he was
suddenly attacked; the culprits hitting him
with a club, or other weapon over the head
and left him in an unconscious condition
by the roadside, where he was found the
next morning. He is dreadfully cut about
the head and face and other portions of his
body and it will be some time before he
will be able to leave the house. The of-
fenders have not heen located.”
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HoPE 1T WILL MAKE Him A FORTUNE.
—The success of a patent is always more or
less problematical and it is invariably a
matter of ‘‘catching on’’ before it returns
a profit to its inventor. HayesC. Schreyer,
of Altoona, a brother of the Bellefonte
groceryman, Harry Schreyer, has just pat-
ented a little device for adding to the com-
fort of railway passengers. Itisan appli-
ance to protect an occupant of a seat in a
car from the discomfiture of an open win-
dow in the seat a head. It is a plate that
may be made of cardboard, wood or thin
metal, and provided with a clamp of bent
or coiled wire, bracing and steadying the
plate and having bowed or arched side
arms designed to bind firmly on the upper
edge of the car seat.
BIG POLITCAL MEETINGS.—Next week
will find the Democracy of Centre county
roused by the holding of three old-fashion-
ed, political meetings.
At Philipsburg, on Tuesday evening,
October 13th, the meeting will be held in
the opera house.
At Bellefonte, on Wednesday evening,
October 14th, the meeting will be held in
the court house. ;
At Millheim, on Thursday, Oct. 15th,
there will be a day and night meeting,
with a big ox roast.
Hon Geo. A. Jenks, of Brookville, one
of the most eloquent platform talkers in
the country, will address all three meetings.
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Dip WELL AT WILLIAMSPORT.—The
Bellefonte Academy foot ball eleven went
to Williamsport, on Saturday morning, to
play with the High school team of that
city. The boys did not expect to do as
well as they did and naturally feel very
much elated over the small score of 6 to 0
against them.
Neither side scored in the first half
though the the academy had the ball in
their opponent’s territory most of the time
and were within a yard of the goal line
once, when they lost it on a fumble.
The High school scored once in the sec-
ond half, but failed for a goal.
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A CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.—It is asad
piece of news to the friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. W. Kirk, of Lathrop street, Pittsburg,
that their two year old baby, Willie, was
burned to death, in that place, on Monday.
The Kirks had only moved from Belle-
fonte a few days before the sad catastrophe
and people here are sincerely pained to
learn of the misfortune. Their baby had
climbed into his high chair to reach some-
thing on the mantel piece, when his dress
caught fire from the grate and before asssis-
tance could reach him he was burned so
badly about the face and neck that he went
into convulsions and died, at noon, on
Tuesday.
GRAND MILLINERY OPENING.—On
Tuesday, Oct. 13th. I have secured
Miss Hollowell, of New York, to assist.
Miss M. SNYDER.
Bellefonte Grain Market.
Corrected weekly by Geo. W. Jackson & Co.
The following are the quotations up to six
o'clock, Thursday evening, when our paper goes
ress : Su
SAIWHER iii tice generis rhs 70
Rye, per bushel...... 35
Corn, shelled, per b 30
Corn, ears, per bushel. 121
Oats, per bushel, old. 18
Oats, per bushel, new 16
Barley, per bushel......... 30
Ground Plaster, per ton wee 8 OO
Buckwheat, perbushel.............................. 40
Cloverseed, per bushel... 86 00 to 87 00
Bellefonte Produce Markets.
Corrected weekly by Sechler & Co.
Potatoes per bushel 15
OnioNS............cves 40
Eggs, per dozen.. 125
Lard, per pound..... G
Country Shoulder: 6
Sides G
Hams 10
Tallow, per pou 3
Butter, NEE ONDA i ire cis iciaeecss 18
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