Bellefonte, Pa., Dec. II, 1896.
P. GRAY MEEK, - -
Epitor.
A Disgrace to Christian Nations.
There may he some exaggeration in the
report that 500 more Armenians have been
butchered by the bloodthirsty Turks, but
the outrages that are known to have been
committed upon those Christian people by
Mohammedan persecutors, whose purpose
is to exterminate them, are quite enough,
without exaggeration, to shame the Euro-
pean powers whose indifference permits
this Christian persecution.
It is simply disgraceful, in this age of
advanced enlightenment, that atrocities
practiced upon Christians by the fanatical
followers of Mohammed, more heinous in
their character than those which aroused
the indignation of the crusaders of the mid-
dle ages, excites nothing more than a pro-
test from the great powers of Europe, and
it is a travesty upon their reputation as
Christian nations, that a half crazy Sultan
can use their mutual jealousies as a means
of preventing their interference with his
fanatical and bloodthirsty intention of ex-
terminating the Armenians.
It is hard to believe that we are living
in an enlightened age and near the end of
the 19th century, when there is not spirit
enough in Europe to stop the persecution
of Christians by the Turks, and in Ameri-
ca not enough hatred of tyranny to inter-
dict the brutal oppression of the Spaniards
in Cuba. Well may it be asked how long
are two hemispheres to he outraged by the
continuance of such atrocities ?
——The death of Col. 0. E. MCCLELLAN,
which occurred at his home, at German-
town, Phila., on Tuesday morning, will
bring genuine sorrow to many men through-
out Pennsylvania. While superintendent
of the middle division of the Pennsylvania
company, with headquarters at Harrisburg,
he formed friendships that could only have
been severed by his death. Col. McCLEL-
LAN was 47 years old and enjoyed the dis-
tinction of being one of the best known
Democrats in the State. His was a brusque,
open manner that knew no dissembling
and was frank as an honest heart could
make it. To his widow and aged mother
the sincere sympathy of his friends will be
extended in thought, if notin words.
Both of Them Lost.
A Bet That Attracted o Crowd and a Policeman,
From the New York Mail and Express.
Time must have hung heavy on the hands
of twe men in Central park this morning.
They were seated each on a bench by him-
self about 200 feet west of the menagerie,
and a dozen people had stopped to watch
them. It was about 100’clock, and there
were very few persons in the park. Such a
spectacle in the afternoon would have
drawn a good-sized crowd.
One man was about 40, fairly dressed and
seemingly intelligent. The other may have
been five years older. He, too, looked as
though he had sense enough to devote his
time to something useful instead of wasting
it. Each man held a peanut between his
thumb and forefinger, which he held out
coaxingly to a gray squirrel hopping about
on the grass. The men had been in this po-
sition for 20 minutes. They had made a
bet of $2 on the squirrel’s selection of one
of the nuts, and the man who held it was
to be the winner. A newsboy with a rag-
ged shirt and his trousers held up by one
suspender was made the stakeholder. He
gripped a $2 bill and two silver dollars in
his fist and awaited results.
The squirrel was timid. It would ad-
vance within a few inches of one of the out-
stretched hands, and then suddenly taking
fright, turn like a flash and scamper for
the nearest tree. Twice the sharp little
nose almost touched the nut in the fingers
of the younger man, when something
startled it. There was a whisk of the bushy
tail, and then another wait. This was kept
up for 20 minutes, when the group watch-
ing the bettors attracted the attention of a
park policeman.
“What's all this?’ he asked pushing
his way forward. The situation was ex-
plained.
‘‘Well,”” said the policeman, ‘‘this is no
place for bettin’ either on squirrels or
horses, so vez had better be takin’ yerselves
off,” and as he spoke he dashed over the
grass and chased the squirrel into a tree.
The men got up reluctantly.
“Td a won that bet in just a minute
more,’ said the man who really did seem
on the point of it when the policeman
came up. ‘‘The squirrel was just getting
ready.”’
“Yes,” said a bystander, *‘I think, youn
would have won, but you’ve lost now.’’
‘‘How have I lost?’ asked the other.
Why, I guess the stake holder has won
this bet,”” ‘was the reply. Both men
looked around. The newsboy with the
ragged shirt had disappeared, and with him
the money.
The Evanescent Good Times.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
We do not see in the Republican news-
paper a continuance of théir observations
about the good times that have followed
the election. Now that Congress has met,
it will be opportune for the newspapers to
cougratulate it upon the prosperity that
blossomed in the last month. If it has al-
ready withered, they should the more
earnestly call the attention of Congress to
evanescence. If it never appeared at all,
but was the result of their imagination,
they might perhaps ask Congress to inquire
how it came that they saw things that
ought to have come, and did not come. As
Congress is the party supposed to be re-
sponsible for all the conditions of the
country and able to hurt them and help
them all, Republican editors should at once
address it on the question as to what has
become of the bursted business boom if it
ever was ; and if it was not, why was it not
when McKinley was elected and the goose
ought to hang high.
——A valuable horse owned by Jacob
Deitrich, of Madigonburg, dropped dead,
on Main street, Millheim, last Thursday.
Heart disease caused it.
(Concluded from page 1.)
ticket, in which list of candidates was the
name of Abram V. Miller for sheriff, and
at the same time, the said twelve or more
voters marked a X opposite the name W.
M. Cronister in the Democratic column,
and which said votes, so as aforesaid cast,
were illegally counted and returned by the
election officers as legal votes for W. M.
Cronister.
5th. That in the election district of the
township of Patton, there were twenty-five
or more votes cast, counted and returned
for W. M. Cronister for sheriff, and conse-
quently computed by the court, than were
legally cast for W. M. Cronister for sheriff,
because the said twenty-five or more voters
marked their ballots with a X in the circle
at the head of the Republican ticket, which
under thc laws of this Commonwealth, was
a vote for all the candidates in that ticket,
in which list of candidates was the
name of Abram V. Miller for sheriff,
and at the same time, the said twenty-five
or more voters marked a X opposite the
name of W. M. Cronister in the Democratic
column, and which said votes, so as afore-
said cast, were illegally counted and re-
turned by the election officers as legal
votes for W. M. Cronister.
6th. That in the election district of the
township of Worth, there were forty or
more votes cast, counted and returnd for W.
M. Cronister for sheriff, and subsequently
computed by the court, than were legally
cast for W. M. Cronister for sheriff, because
the said forty or more voters marked their
ballots witha X in the circle at the head of
the Republican ticket, in which list of can-
didates was the name of Abram V.
Miller for sheriff, and at the same time, the
said forty or more voters marked a X oppo-
site the name of W. M. Cronister in the
Democratic column, and which said votes,
so as aforesaid cast, were illegally counted
and returned by the election officers as le-
gal votes for W. M. Cronister.
7th. That in the election district of the
township of Burnsides, there were thirty or
more votes cast, counted and returned for
W. M. Cronister for sheriff, and subse-
quently computed by the Court, than were
legally cast for W gM. Cronister for sheriff,
because the said thirty or more voters
marked their ballots with a X in the
circle at the head of the Republican ticket,
which under the laws of this Common-
wealth, was a vote for all the candidates in
that ticket, in which list of candidates was
the name of Abram V. Miller for sheriff,
and at the same time, the said thirty or
more voters marked a X opposite the name
of W. M. Cronister in the Democratic col-
umn, and said votes, so as aforesaid cast,
were illegally counted and return by the
election officers as legal votes for W. M.
Cronister.
8th: That in the election district of
the north precinct of Rush township,
there were fifteen or more votes cast,counted
and returned for W. M. Cronister for sher-
iff, and subsequently computed by the
Court, than were legally cast for W. M.
Cronister for sheriff, because the said fif-
teen or more voters marked their ballots
with a X in the circle at the head of the
Republican ticket, which under the laws
of this Commonwealth, was a vote for all
the candidates in that ticket, in which list
of candidates was the name of Abram V.
Miller for sheriff, and at the same time,
the said fifteen or more voters marked a X
opposite the name of W. M. Cronister in
the. Democratic column, and which said
votes, so as aforesaid cast, were illegally
counted and returned by the election offi-
cers as legal votes for W. M. Cronister.
9th : That in the election district of the
south precinct of Rush township, there were
twenty or more votes cast, counted and
returned for W. M. Cronister for sheriff,
and subsequently computed by the Court,
than were legally cast for W. M. Cronister-
for sheriff, because the said twenty or more
voters marked their ballots with a X in
the circle at the head of the Republican
ticket, which under the- laws of this Com-
monwealth, was a vote for all the candi-
dates in that ticket, in which list of candi-
dates was the name of Abram V. Miller for
sheriff, and at the same time, the said
twenty or more voters marked a X oppo-
site the name of W. M. Crontsier in the
Democratic column, and which said votes,
so as aforesaid cast, were illegally counted
and returned by the election officers as
legal votes for W. M. Cronister.
10th. That in the election district of the
first ward of the borough of Philipsburg,
there were twenty-six or more votes cast,
counted and returned for W. M. Cronister
for sheriff, and subsequently computed by
the Court, than were legally cast for W.
M. Cronister for sheriff, because the said
twenty-six or more voters marked their
ballots with a X in the circle at the head
of the Republican ticket, which under the
laws of this Commonwealth, was a vote for
all the candidates in that ticket, in which
list of candidates was the name of Abram
V. Miller for sheriff, and at the same time,
the said twenty-six or more voters marked
a X opposite the name of W. M. Cronis-
ter in the Democratic column, and which
said votes, so as aforesaid cast, were ille-
gally counted and returned by the election
officers as legal votes for W. M. Cronister.
11th. That in the election district of
the second ward of the borough of Philips-
burg, there were seventeen or more votes
cast, counted and returned for W. M.
Cronister for sheriff, and subsequently com-
puted by the Court, than were legally cast
for W. M. Cronister for sheriff, because the
said seventeen or more voters marked their
ballots with a X in the circle at the head
of the Republican ticket, which under the
laws of this Commonwealth, was a vote for
all the candidates in that ticket, in which
list of candidates was the name of Abram
V. Miller for sheriff, and at the same time,
the said seventeen or more voters marked
a X opposite the name of W. M. Cronis-
ter in the Democratic column, and which
said votes, so as aforesaid cast, were ille-
gally counted and returned by the election
officers as legal votes for W. M. Cronister.
12th. That in the election district of
the third ward of the borough of Philips-
burg, there were one hundred or more
votes cast, counted and returned for W.
M. Cronister for sheriff, and consequently
computed by the Court, than were legally
cast for W. M. Cronister for sheriff, because
the said one hundred or more voters
marked their ballots with a X in the cir-
cle at the head of the Republican ticket,
which under the laws of this Common-
wealth, was a vote for all the candidates in
that ticket, in which list of candidates was
the name of Abram V. Miller for sheriff,
and at the same time, the said one hundred
or more voters marked a X opposite the
name of W. M. Cronister in the Democra-
tic column, and which said votes. so as
aforesaid cast, were illegally counted and
returned by the election officers as legal
votes for W. M. Cronister.
13th. That in the election district of
the township of Burnside, there were thirty
ar more votes or ballots received by the
election officers, and subsequently thrown
out and not counted by them, nor return-
ed, nor computed by the Court, because
. the said thirty or more voters respectively
{| several candidates in the Republican ticket
marked their ballots by making a X in the
circle above the Socialist Labor column.
And because the said ballots were so mark-
ed, the election officers illegally rejected
them, and refused to count them for the
for county offices, in which column Abram
V. Miller was a candidate for sheriff. That
in the said Socialist Labor ticket. there
were no candidates printed for county of-
fice. Petitioners allege and claim that the
said votes so as aforesaid cast by qualified
electors in said township, were legal votes
for Abram V. Miller for sheriff, which said
votes shonld have been counted for the said
Abram V. Miller.
14th. That in the election district of
the north precinct of Rush township there
were fifteen or more votes cast for Abram
V. Miller for sheriff, which were subse-
lepity rejected by the election officers,
who refused to count and return the same,
because the said voters, being qualified
electors of the said election district, mark-
ed their ballets-by making a X in the cir-
cle at the head of the Prohibition ticket,
and at the same time, marking a X at the
right hand side of the name of Abram V.
Miller in the Republican column, there be-
ing the name of no candidate for sheriff
printed in the Prohibition column. Peti-
tioners claim that the said votes so as afore-
said cast, should have been counted for
Abram V. Miller for sheriff.
15th. That in the election district of the
north precinct of Rush township, there was
no legal election held. That the election
board for the said precinct, in violation of
law, called in a stranger, who was neither
a clerk nor an officer of the board, to assist
the board in correcting errors and mistakes,
into which the election officers had fallen,
and which they were themselves, apparent-
ly, unable to correct ; and without au-
thority of law, they accepted the aet of said
intruder and returned the result of the
election as stated by the said unauthorized
person. That said unauthorized person
was taken by the said election hoard with-
in the guard rail, and that he communica-
ted with the said election officers, and that
he prepared the result of the vote, which
was certified by the election officers, in
violation of the Act of the 10th day of June
1893. .
16th. That in the election district of
the township of Benner there were fifteen
or more votes cast, counted and returned
for W. M. Cronister for sheriff, and subse-
quently computed by the Court, than were
legally cast for W. M. Cronister for sheriff,
because the said fifteen or more voters
marked their ballots with a X in the circle
at the head of the Republican ticket, which
under the laws of this Commonwealth, was
a vote for all the candidates in that ticket,
in which list of candidates was the name of
Abram V. Miller for sheriff, and at the
same time, the said fifteen or more voters
marked a X opposite the name of W. M.
Cronister in the Democratic column, and
which said votes, so as aforesaid cast, were
illegally counted and returned by the elec-
tion officers as legal votes for W. M. Cron-
ister. And further, that in the said elec-
tion district, the election officers failed to
perform their duty in verifying the election
in ascertaining the number of votes cast,
the clerks having been confused in their
tally sheets, and the result of the said elec-
tion was returned without any correction
of errors in the tally sheet, or in the poll
list. The return therefore, in said election
district, should be rejected by the Court.
17th. That there was no legal election
in the election district for the east precinct
of Gregg township the return of the election
officers showing that five more votes were
returned by thesaid board than were cast
at the said election ; and it is impossible
to determine how the legal votes were cast
and by whom. Your petitioners therefore
complain and say that this poll should be
‘rejected by the Court.
18th. That the general election held on
the 3rd day of November, 1896, in the
county of Centre, there were fifty or more’
votes cast, counted and returned for W.
M. Cronister for sheriff by the several elec-
tion hoards, and subsequently computed by
the Court, which votes were cast by per-
sons who were not qualified electors, nor
entitled to vote at said election, and which
votes should be rejected. :
19th. Petitioners further represent that:
the questions involved in the foregoing
petition, will require the preservation of
the ballots and the ballot-boxes in the sev-
eral election districts of this county, or at
least in such districts as may hereafter be
designated, for the purpose of having a
proper, correct and legal count of the bal-
lots cast at said election ; and when so pro-
duced and re-counted, petitioners aver a
considerable majority of the legal votes
will be shown to have been cast for said
Abram V. Miller.
20th. And petitioners further aver that
in the election district of the west ward of
the borough of Bellefonte, there were five
or more votes cast for W. M. Cronister for
sheriff at the said general election held on
the 3rd day of November, 1896, by persons
claiming to be voters, but who were non-
residents, and who did not otherwise pos-
sess the qualifications required by the con-
stitution to be legal voters.
21st. That in the election district of
the north precinct of Boggs township there
were fifteen or more votes cast for Abram
V. Miller for sheriff, which were subse-
quently rejected by the election officers,
who refused to count and return the same,
because the said voters, being qualified
electors of the said election district, mark-
ed their ballots by making a X in the cir-
cle at the head of the Prohibition ticket.
and at the same time making a X at the
right hand side of the name of Abram V.
Miller in the Republican column, there be-
ing the name of no candidate for sheriff
printed in the Prohibition column. Peti-
tioners claim that said votes, so as afore-
said cast, should have been counted and
returned for Abram V. Miller for sheriff,
22nd. That in the election district of
the west precinct of Boggs township there
were twenty or more votes cast for Abram
V. Miller for sheriff, which were subse-
quently rejected by the election officers,
who refused to count and return the same,
because the said voters, being qualified
electors of the said election district, mark-
ed their ballots by makinga X in the circle
at the head of the Prohibition ticket, and
at the same time making a X at the right
hand side of the name of Abram V. Miller
in the Republican column, there being the
name of no candidate for sheriff printed in
the Prohibition column. Petitioners claim
that the said votes so as aforesaid cast,
should have been counted and returned for
Abram V. Miller for sheriff.
23rd. That in the election district of
the east precinct of Boggs township there
were five or more votes cast for Abram V.
Miller for sheriff, which were subsequently
rejected by the election officers, who refus-
ed to count and return the same, because
the said voters, being qualified electors of
the said election district, marked their bal-
lots by making a Xin the circle at the
head of the Prohibition ticket, and at the
same time making a X at the right hand
side of the name of Abram V. Miller in the
Republican column, there being the name
of no candidate for sheriff printed in the
Prohibition column. Petitioners claim
that the spid votes so as aforesaid cast,
should have been counted and returned for
Abram V. Miller for sheriff.
24th. That in the election district of the
east precinct of the township of Gregg,
there were ten or more legal votes cast and
voted by qualified electors of the county of
Centre, for Abram V. Miller for sheriff,
which were illegally rejected by the elec-
tion board who failed to count, certify
or return the same according to law.
Petitioners further aver that the said votes
so as gforesaid cast for the said Abram V.
Miller for sheriff, should have been count-
ed, certified and returned by the election
officers for him.
25th. That im the election district of
the west precinct of Ferguson township
there were fifteen or more legal votes cast
for Abram V. Miller for sheriff, by quali-
fied electors of said clection district which
were illegally rejected by the election of-
ficers, who refused to count, certify and re-
turn the same, which said votes, so as
aforesaid cast by the said qualified electors,
were legal votes cast for the said Abram V.
Miller for sheriff, and should have heen so
counted, certified and returned.
26th. That in the election district of
the borough of Unionville there were ten
or more legal votes cast for Abram V. Mil-
ler for sheriff, by qualified electors of said
election district, which were illegally re-
jected by the election officers, who refused
to count, certify and return the same which
said votes, so as aforesaid cast by the said
qualified clectors, were legal votes cast for
the said Abram V. Miller for sheriff, and
should have been counted, certified and re-
turned.
27th. That in the election district of the
township of Huston there were twenty or
more votes cast, counted and returned for
W. M. Cronister for sheriff, and subse-
quently computed by the Court, than were
legally cast for the said Cronister for sheriff,
because the said twenty or more voters
marked their ballots with a X in the circle
at the head of the Republican ticket, which
under the laws of this Commonwealth,
was a vote for all the candidatesdn that
ticket, in which list of candidates was the
name of Abram V. Miller for sheriff, and
at the same time the said twenty or more
voters marked a X opposite the name of
W. M. Cronister in the Democratic column,
which said votes so as aforesaid cast, were
illegally counted, certified and returned by
the election officers as legal votes for W.
M. Cronister.
Your petitioners further aver that if the
said illegal votes cast, counted, computed,
certified and returned for said W. M. Cron-
ister for the office of sheriff, in the said sev-
eral election districts in the county of Cen-
tre, above referred to and specifically men-
tioned, which were illegally counted and
returned and computed for the said W. M.
Cronister for sheriff, are deducted from the
total number of votes counted and returned
for the said W. M. Cronister for the said
office as aforesaid, that the said Abram V.
Miller would have a majority over and
above the said W. M. Cronister of at least
six hundred legal votes ; and that he, the
said Abram V. Miller was therefore duly
elected to the said office of sheriff. Your
petitioners therefore pray that this, their
petition, may be adjudged sufficient, and
may be filed in the proper Court, and that
a time may be fixed for the hearing there-
of, and that a rule may be granted upon
the said W. M. Cronister, to appear and
answer the petition, and show cause why
the said Abram V. Miller should not be
certified as duly elected to the office of
sheriff of Centre county.
And they will ever pray etc.
Robert V. Miller, G. W. Rees,
Simeon Haupt, Edward Eckenroth,
(Signed.)
D. M. Glenn, H. H. Osman,
F. 8. Dunham, John Bilger,
L. E. Jodon W. 8. Williams,
G. H. Knisely, W. I. Tripple,
Isaac Miller, W. Woodring,
D, Rothrock, Charles Eckenroth,
A. P. Lucas, J. Irvin Morris,
John A. Daley, John T. Fowler,
W. H. Musser, A. V. Hoyt,
Geo, W. Smith, Geo. L. Potter,
John L. Croft, W. T. Noll,
Thomas McCafferty, W. H. Stiver,
William Knapp, Robert Valentine.
State of Pennsylvania, )
County of Centre. |
Personally appeared before me, one of the
Justices of the Peace in and for the county
of Centre, duly commissioned and qualified.
Robert V. Miller, W. T. Noll,
W. H. Musser, W. Woodring
. H. Osman.
Five of the above named and foregoing
petitioners, who are all citizens and qualified
electors of Centre county, and who voted at
the general election for sheriff, held on Tues-
day, the 3rd day of November, 1896, and who
being severally sworn according to law, do
depose and say that they verily believe the
facts stated in the foregoing petition, are
true; that according to the best of their
knowledge and belief, the election was undue
and illegal, and the return thereof not cor-
rect; and that the petition to contest the
same is made in good faith, and further say
not.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 24th
day of November A. D. 1896. :
ROBERT V. MILLER,
W. T. NoLL.
(Signed) |W. WoODRING,
W. H. MUSSER,
H. H. OsMAN.
(Signed) JOHN B. LINN,
Justice of the Peace.
DECREE.
And now, December 3, A. D. 15895, the
within petition being presented to the
Court and read, and the same having been
duly considered, is adjudged sufficient, and
and it is ordered that the same be filed in
the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace
in and for the county of Centre, and Satur-
day the 2nd day of January, A. D. 1897, is
fixed as the day for the hearing thereof, at
2 o'clock p. m. of said day ; and it is furth-
er ordered that a copy of this petition, and
a copy of this decree be served on the said
W. M. Cronister, together with a rule to
appear and answer the same, on or before
the said 2nd day of January 1897 which
rule and copy of the petition and decree
shall be served at least twenty days before
said day of appearance.
By THE COURT.
A true and attested copy of the petition
and decree filed in the above case.
W. F. SmitH, Clerk.
Quay Pressed the Button and the Gover-
nor Did the Rest.
From the Easton Argus.
The withdrawal of Governor Hastings of
his candidature for United States senator
to take the place of Senator Cameron, is
humiliating to say the least. The circum-
stances are not at all palliated by the
prominence in the state of the position he
now occupies. At one time he announces
himself as a candidate for the office. Along
comes Boss Quay, has a conference with
him and his aspirations vanish. What is
more he allows it to be known that he is
in favor of the candidate for whom Quay
declares. In whatever way it may be
taken it does not place the governor in a
favorable light and leads to all sorts of con-
clusions as to what inducements led him to
80 easily capitulate to the man whom he so
strenuously fought a little more than a
yearago.
SA pe
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——*A trip to China-town’” is one of
Hoyt’s master pieces and as a comedy play-
wright Hoyt has no equal. This fine attract-
ion comes to Garman’s, Thursday night,
December 17th.
— te: 2
DIED AT UNIONVILLE.—Mis. Hanna
Morrison died at her home, in Unionville,
Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock, after an ill-
ness of a short time with pneumonia. She
was 73 years old and had survived her hus-
band about 18 years. Deceased was a
member of the Methodist church.
She leaves six children ; George, Irvin,
Mrs. Sadie Emerick and Mrs. Annie Speere
of Unionville ; Mrs. Winters, of William-
sport ; and Mrs. Beulah Eckley, of Pitts-
burg. ry
Burial will be made at Unionville this
afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Nittany Valley Items.
Miss Katie Billet, of Birmingham, spent
last week in this locality.
William Showers is finishing his new house.
When completed it will be a model residence.
Nelson Robb and Cal. Garbrick, of Zion,
visited our town, on last Sunday.
The Evangelical association will hold an
oyster supper in their new church, Saturday,
Dec. 12th.
B. F. Shafer, Doc. Winkleman and R. F.
Emerick have returned from hunting. Did
they get any venison ? “Nit.”
Bertrand Robb is the happiest boy in the
land. He received a bicycle for canvassing
and selling 481bs. of baking powder.
John Minnick has killed the largest porker,
of the season in thislocality. It weighed 468
lbs. The total weight of five porkers was
1,760 pounds.
A church social will be held in the Luth-
eran church, at Snydertown, Dec. 16th. The
same congregation, puroose having a Christ-
mas entertainment, on Christmas eve.
The present condition of the turn-pike, in
this valley, has caused many an individual
to use language not appropriate to print. The
managers of this pike deserve the abuse
they are getting for such neglect of their
duty. The last year's stone have been
lying in the middle of the road so that the
public have to drive to the side in order to
travel.
Joe Emerick, present road supervisor, is
keeping the stone crusher running and re-
pairing public roads. He covered more sur-
face and put it in better condition, this last
year, than was completed in, five previous
years, in the‘manner of breaking stone by
sledges. Any one that opposes stone crush-
ers, should be treated with a dose, like the
nigger received at Howard, and shipped to
Cuba. Mr. Emerick shoald receive the ap-
proval of every tax payer for his judicious
manner of improvement.
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Books, Magazines, Etc.
The Christmas number of Harper's Weekly will
be dated December 19, and will contain short
stories by Iloward Pyle, Captain Charles King,
John Kendrick Bangs, and others, with illustra-
tions by Howard Pyle, C. 8S. Reinhart, Frederic
Remington, Peter Newell, Lucius Hitchcock, and
A. I. Keller. The Christmas “Lite and Letters,”
by W. D. Howells, will be illustrated by Edward
Penfield. During the month Colonel George E.
Waring, Jun., will continue hts papers on Street-
Cleaning in European Cities.
The number of December 12 will contain a
striking series of illustrations of the recent strike
riots in Colorado. With the first number of the
new volume two new serials will begin : “Jerome,
. a Poor Man,” a novel of New England life by
Mary E. Wilkins, and “The Pursuit of the House-
Boat,” by John Kendrick Bangs, a sequel to his
amusing story “The Housc-Boat on the Styx."
The December plans for Harper's Bazar include
somo notable Christmas features. Stories by
Mary E. Wilkins and Elin W. Peattie, entitled
respectively “An Unlucky Christmas™ and “A
Shylock of the Sandhills,” will be begun, with
illustrations by Keller and De Thulstrup. A play
entitled “One Disinterested Friend,” by Caroline
Ticknor, and a variety of papers telling of Christ-
mas Dinners, Christmas Gifts and Christmas
Pleasures in general, will round out the year.
An even excellence makes the good things
which The Ladies’ Home Journal! promises un-
usually interesting and strong. The list is long
and sturdy. One series of papers alone would sell
the magazine : that is, the three White House
articles which ex-President Harrison is to write.
No man has ever done what General Harrison
will do in these articles: show us what “A Day
With the President at His Desk’ means in one
article ; in another tell of “The Social Life of the
President,” and in a third article describe “Up-
stairs Life in the White House.” Each of the
articles will be profusely illustrated. Another
series equally fascinating is the one called “Great
Personal Events,” in which some of the greatest
enthusiasms which have occurred in America
will be revived: those wonderful times when
Louis Kossuth rode up Broadway: when the
young Prince of Wales was here; when Jenny
Lind sang in Castle Garden ; when Henry Ward
Beecher electrified his congregation by selling
¢laves in his pulpit; when Grant went round the
world ; when Henry Clay bade farewell to the
senate ; when John Wesley preached in George,
of which so few know. All these memorable
events and others will be vividly, recalled, told
more graphically than ever before, and illustrated
with pictures which have occupied twelve artists
for overa year. A third series is unique and
valuable from the fact that it will give women
scores of ideas for their homes. It will reveal
what there is ‘Inside of a Hundred American
Homes,” and carefully reproduce pictures of one
hundred completely-furnished rooms in homes in
this country—from Maine to California—where
taste has gone farther than money. Two new
department writers have also been exclusively
engaged by the Journal: Mrs. S. E. Rorer, who
will hereafter have entire charge of the domestic
department and give a series of cooking lessons,
and Dwight L. Moody, the famous evangelist,
who is to put the result of his life study of the
Bible in a department entitled “Mr. Moody's
Bible Class.” The artist, Charles Dana Gibson,
who created the Gibson girl, will present six full-
. page pictures showing. ‘The People of Dickens,”
while Alice Barber Stephens will alternate with
Mr. Gibson and present her idea of “Six Types of
American Womanhood,” Mary E. Wilkins,
the New England writer, will revive the
old quilting-party, the ancient singing-school and
the apple-paring bee in “The Pleasures of Our
Neighborhood.” Iran Maclaren will have
a story, while Herbert D. Ward's humor-
ous serial, ‘The Burglar Who Moved Para-
dise,” will run through the year, followed by
Hamlin Garland's new novelette, “The Spirit of
Sweetwater.” Jenny Lind’s daughter is to
sketch “My Mother as I Recall Her,” while Geo.
W. Smalley is to show ‘The Personal Side of Bis-
marck,” and “The Personal Side of the Prince of
Wales" in two lavishly-illustrated articles. Al-
together, no magazine gives a list of attractions
so interesting and promising as does The Ladies’
Home Journal, and certainly no periodical does
it, as does the Journal, for only one dollar per
year. The Journal is published by The Curtis
Publishing company, of Ihiladelphia.
New Advertisments.
W ANTED.—Good homes for two boys,
aged six and cight years. Also twins—
boy and girl, aged cleven years. A ply to
MRS. H. ir KURTZ,
Pres. of Children’s Aid Society, Bellefonte, Pa.
OR RENT.—The hotel, store and farm
at Keating, Clinton Co., Pa., unfurnished.
Hotel is being rebuilt and will be ready for oc-
cupancy Dec. 1st. Apply to J. W. MERREY,
41-44-1m Beech Creek, Pa.
ANTED HAY AND STRAW. —If
any of the subseribers of the Warcnsan
who live within hauling distance of Bellefonte
have hay or straw to sell T will accept it in part or
as entire payment on any accounts they may
have at this office. P. GRAY MEEK.
DMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE. — Let-
ters of administration on the estate of
Samuel Brickley deceased late of Howard borough,
having been granted to the undersigned he re-
quests all persons knowing themselves indebted
to said estate to make payment and those having
claims against the same to present them duly au-
thenticated for settlement.
° ORVIS W. BRICKLEY,
Howard, Pa.
41-49-6t.
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Apricots, Figs, Dates, Orange, Lemon
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supplies. Sechler & Co.
JL XECUTOR'S NOTICE. — Letters tes-
tamentary on the estate of the late Philip
W. Barnhart, of Boggs township, Centre county,
Pa,, having been granted the undersigned they
request all parties knowing themselves indebted
to said estate to make immediate settlement and
those having claimsto present same, properly
authentioatod. for payment.
Address Bellefonte, Pa, H. O. BARNHART,
J. K. BARNHART,
41-47-6¢ Admins.
We have the finest assortment of
canned goods, evaporated fruits and
fine groceries ever offered to the trade
in Bellefonte.. Goods in this line are
fine in quality and very reasonable in
price. Sechler & Co.
EDUCATION and fortune
( y ET AN
| go hand in hand. Get an
v | education at the CENTRAL STATE
EDUCATION | NorMaL Schoor, Lock HAVEN,
Pa. First-class accommoda-
tions and low rates. State aid
to students. For circulars and illustrated cata-
logue, address
JAMES ELDON, Ph. D., Principal,
State Normal School, Lock Haven, Pa.
41-47-1y
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Oil, Flavoring Extracts, Sardines,
Pickles, Ketchups, Sauces, Macaroni,
Gelatine, Mustards and Salad Dress-
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Sechler & Co.
UDITOR'S NOTICE. — The under-
signed having been appointed an auditor
by the Orphan's gourt of Centre county, Penna.,
in the matter of the estate of the late Patrick
Dooley, of Bellefonte, will be in his office at 10
o'clock, Friday, Dec. 11th, 1896, to distribute the
funds in the hands of Henry C. Quigley, adminis-
trator of same, to and among those legally enti-
tled to participate in such distribution, and at
which time all parties interested are notified to
appear or forever be debarred from participating
in same.
HARRY KELLER,
41-45-3t. Auditor.
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Spices. Sechler & Co.
HERIFF’S SALE.
By virtue of a writ of Fi Fa, issued out of the
Court of Common Pleas and to me directed, there
will be exposed to public =ale at the court house,
in the borough of Bellefonte, Pa., on
SATURDAY, DEC. 19th, 1896.
at 10:30, o'clock a. m., the following real estate :
All that certain messuage or tenement and
tract of land situate, lying and being in the Boro.
of Philipsburg, county of Centre and State of
Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows
to wit : Beginning at a point on the north line of
Pine street 101 feet south 60° west of N. W. corner
of Pine and Front streets, said point being locat-
‘ed ha iron pin being driven into the ground
and being the point where the west line of a pri-
vate eleven foot alley intersects or cuts the north
line of Pine street, south 60° west 84.35 feet to an
iron 2 said pin Doing the southwest corner of
this lot and the point where the east line of a pub-
lie Alley cuts the north line of Pine street, thence
along the line of said public alley north 30° W
43.67 féet to an iron pin, thence further along the
same north 21°23 W 50.55 feet to an iron pin,
thence further along the same north 20° 29 east
42.31 feet to a point on the south side of the pub-
lic alley between these premises and property of
I. O. O. F., thence along the last mentioned alley
north 60° east 44.2 feet to a point on the west line
of a private alley between these premises and
lands owned by L. C. Brinton and others, thence
along the west line of said private alley south 30°
east 120.45 feet to an iron pin on the north line of
Pino street and place of beginning
Thereon erected a large two story frame
building and a two ory brick addition, stable,
ice house and other outbuildings, known as the
Hotel Continen -«
Seized, tak execution, and to be sold as
the property ofWattersall Ingham.
TerMs—No deed will be acknowledged until pur-
chase money is paid in full.
Sheriff's Office, JOHN P. CONDO
Bellefonte, Dec. 1st, 1896. Sheriff.
(RPIFANCE NO. 1.—
ENTITLED, AN ORDINANCE.
To authorize the CENTRAL PENNA. TELE-
PHONE AND SUPPLY COMPANY to erect and
maintain poles for telephone lines in the borough
of State College, Centre county, Pennsylvania.
Waereas, The Central Penna. Telephone and
Supply Company has applied to the authorities of
thé Borough of State College, Penna., for permis-
sion to erect poles and run wires on the same,
over or under the streets, lanes and alleys of said
borough as provided by the 4th section of an act
entitled, “An Act to provide for the incorporation
and regulation of certain corporations” as amend-
ed by an act apni oved 25th June, 1885.
THEREFORE be it ordained and enacted;
the Town Council of the Borough of State College
College, Penna., and it is hereby ordained and enact-
ed by the authority of the same.
Section 1. That the Central Penna. Telephone
and Supply Company, its successors or assigns, its
or their agents, servants and employees are per-
mitted to erect and maintain in the streets, lanes
and alleys of the borough of State College, Penna.
and over or under the same, a line or lines of
poles and wires, with all such necessary and usual
fixtures therefore as may be necessary for the
successful prosecution of a telephone or signal
business by means of electricity.
Section 2. That the polls shall be reasonably
straight and with the fixtures so to be erected
shall be put in a safe and substantial manner and
shall be as neat in appearance as may be and
shall be located by the street committee or the
street commissioner under their direction in such
manner as notto obstruct said streets, lanes and
alleys in their ordinary and customary use and
shall be erected, maintained and cared for at the
cost and charge of said company.
Section 3. That said Telephone Company shall,
at such time as it may be requested, by resolution
of Council, provide, place and maintain in the
office of the Burgess or other designated official
ofthe borough, a telephone connection, the use
of which telephone shall be restricted, free of
charge, to the official business of said borough,
within its Teiephone Exchange District.
Ordained and enacted into an ordinance this
fifteenth (15) day of October, A. D., 1896.
GEO. C. BUTZ,
Attest : President of the Council.
L. RAY MORGAN, Clerk.
Approved this first day of December, A. D. 1896.
THEO. 8. CHRIST,
41-49-3t Burgess.
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Beef, large new Mackeral, Salt, coarse
or fine, 14 1b., 28 1b, 56 1b., 140 Ib.,
bags and 280 1b. bbls. Sechler & Co.