tle
Terms, 82.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., April 23, 1897.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - Epitor.
Quay’s Love for the People.
The idea of Quay’s aspiring to be a re-
former has been a puzzle to those who have
given a thought to that phenomenon, but
one of his senatorial friends at Washing-
ton explains the motive for such freakish
fmbition on the- part of the old boss. He
says that ‘‘Quay has determined to
cap the climax of a great political career by
bringing lasting benefit to the people who
have honored him and whom he loves."’
Such a picture of the affection he entertains
-for the people of Pennsylvania is really
touching, but in contrasting his past course
- with his alleged present purpose, a glaring
inconsistency is apparent. No one has been
more responsible than he for the corrup-
tion and demoralization of the politics of
the State. He has been one of the most
active agents in bringing the state govern-
ment under the control of a political ma-
chine with all the corruption, maladminis-
tration, and vicious abuse of the legisla-
tive and executive functions that are the
‘inevitable consequence of machine politics
and boss rule. If he is really in earnest in
being a reformer, the evils he’ will have to
reform in our state government ate those
which he himself was chiefly instrumental
in creating.
Among the wrongs that need
reformation is the corrupt use of
money in politics. The suppression of
that evil is the purpose of one of the re-
form bills he has before the Legislature ;
but under whose management was money
more freely used in politics than under his
own, while acting as party boss and cam-
paign manager? Another of his reforms
is the prevention of the assessment of of-
fice holders for political purposes ; but un-
der ng one did that abuse grow to more
scanddlous proportion than under boss
Quay. He would also reform the civil ser-
vice in state and municipal government, yet
the use he made of the offices to reward his
henchmen and strengthen his political in-
fluence was the principal means of main-
taining his power as a party boss and de-
basing the civil service of the State.
It is extremely doubtful whether QUAY,
even if he is earnest, will succeed in his
newly acquired disposition to be a reformer.
His previous example and influence im-
implanted in his followers such an uneradi-
cable inclination to crooked methods and
corrupt measures that even his own Legis-
ture won’t pass his reform bills, which are
likely to have the life kicked out of them
between the two factions into which the
majority in the Legislature is divided.
‘They don’t want any reform, and it is
(quite likely that, judging him from .his
past career, they don’t believe that QUAY
is sincere in his reform intentions. “This is
a natural eonclusion on their part, and it is
no doubt a correct one.
The people of the State, however, will
look neither to QUAY nor his party for the
reform that is so greatly needed in the state
government. They know that it is useless
to look for it in that quarter. Their pa-
tience has become exhausted. = It has been
completely worn out by the conduct of the
present state administration and Legisla-
tore, and they are becoming' convinced
that their only relief will be to turn them
all out, not omitting the boss with all his
promises of reform and his affection for the
people ‘‘whom he loves.”
War is Now On in Reality.
The Turkish and @reclan Troops Worn Out by Their
Hard Work of the Past Three Days.—G@reek Forces
Capture Reveni.—Mourning in Athens Changed to
Wild Rejoicing Over the News of a Victory.
ATHENS, April 19, * 7] p. m.—The situa-
tion on the frontier has not, according to
the latest advices, been materially modified
to-day. Both the Turks and the Greeks
are resting from the tremendous exertions
of Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The
troops of Edhem Pasha were half dead with
fatigue and hunger when the firing slack-
ened last night. Most of them flung them-
selves down where they stood on the bare
ground to sleep. The Turkish commander-
in-chief prudently decided to allow his
army to rest to-day.
As details come in it hecomes more and
more apparent that the fighting in Milouna
Pass was one of the most stubborn and sav-
age character. The Turks ‘fought like
devils, and the Greeks resisted i in the spirit
of their ancestors.
THE LOSSES SMALL.
The most inexplicable fact in connection
with the whole engagement is the com-
paratively small number of killed. All
the special correspondents agree as to this.
The Turks appear to have fired as wildly
with their rifles at Milouna Pass as they
did at Arta, where the fighting consisted of
an artillery duel between the rival batteries
on each side of the river, lasting about fear
hours in the afternoon. There they fired
only one out of five shots with any effect
and their batteries were soon silenced by
the Greeks, whose markmanship was very
much superior.
The Turkish losses at Arta are believed
to have been very heavy. On the Greek
side there was not a man killed.
EDHEM PASHA NEARLY CAPTURED.
General Smolenitz, ex-Minister of War,
is in command of 14,000 Greeks at Reveni,
not far from Tyrnavo, northwest of Larissa.
At this point IXdhem Pasha, closely press-
ed, was nearly taken prisoner. His plan
was to force the Pass of Reveni, to enter
the plain of Larissa, to cut off the retreat
of the Greek army with his cavalry and thus
to take Larissa without resistance. But
this plan was defeated. General Demop-
oulos, at the head of one division, forced
the Turkish line at Boughazi, close to Tyr-
navo, and General Maviomichale broke
through at Koniskes. The two generals
united their troops near Damasi.
REJOICING IN ATHENS.
The news of this success at Reveni and
of the imminent fall of Prevesa has chang-
ed the dismay caused in Athens by the loss
of Milouna into the wildest rejoicing. The
latest advices to-night are that the Greek
troops are advancing to reoccupy their po-
sitions at Milouna and at Gritzovail, the
latter of which, it is alleged, was abandon-
ed, owing to a misunderstanding by the
general in command, who interpreted as an
order of retreat what was really intended
as an order to advance.
Captain Tagarde, who was wounded at
Gritzovail, shot himself in order to avoid
falling into the hands of the Turks. The
Greeks report that the Turks lost 7,000
killed and wounded at Reveni, but this es-
timate is probably excessive. It is stated
that the Turkish forces attacking Reveni
numbered more than ten thousand men.
Greek and Turkish S4ctories.
The Situation Does N Not Affect Crete.
LoxNDoN, April 20.—On good authority the
Associated Press is informed that the war
between Greece and Turkey will not affect
the situation in Crete. The powers have
guaranteed the safety of the Mussulman
population there and will continue their
efforts to pacify the island and endow it
with autonomy.
The officials of the Turkish embassy here
believe from the wording of Edhem Pasha’s
dispatches to the Turkish government, that
the Greeks will make no great stand until
the Turks reach Larissa, where the main
battle, it is thought, will be fought. This
seems probable as Prince Constantin, the
Greek commander in chief, has left Tyr-
navo for Larissa.
Several British officers, both on the ac-
tive list and helonging to the reserve, have
offered their service at the Turkish embassy
one of them volunteering to equip 300 men
for service against the Greeks and to bear
all the expenses of taking them to the |.
frontier. The officials of the embassy have
referred all such offers to the government
at Constantinople.
ATHENS, April 20, —All the mem-
bers of the gendarmerie and other po-
lice forces military organized are now go-
ing to the frontier. The citizens have vol-
unteered to guard the town. The same
conditions prevail in all the other towns of
Greece. On all sides there is a firm deter-
mination to meet the Turkish-invasion and
every man who can be spared and who can
bear arms is going to the front.
The Athenian ladies, under the patron-
age of the queen, have coverted the steam-
er Thessaly into a floating hospital. Three
hundred beds for the wounded have been
fitted up on board of the steamer and she
is now proceeding to Volo.
MiLouNA Pass, April 20, — Active
preparations for a general advance
have been in progress since daybreak.
During the night the Greeks established
themselves on the last height near Tyr-
navo, opposite the position which the Turks
captured last evening. Nechat Pasha open-
ed the attack upon this position this morn-
ing with a brisk firing from behind the
defences. The combatants have not yet
come into close quarters. The Greeks
brought up several pieces of artillery,
which were speedily silenced. .
The Greeks are now concentrated near
Tyrnavo, whether in great strength or not
is not known here. Greek reinforcements
have been seen crossing the plain in the
direction of Tyrnavo.
Three batteries of Turkish artillery have
arrived from Monastoru. Grumkoff Pasha
is now with the Turkish troops.
ATHENS, April 20.—An official dispatch
from Arta says that, after crossing the
Aracthos at Bani, the .Greeks occupied the
villages of Neokbori and Sakhikalama,
where they strongly entrenched themselves.
Colonel Munos is now advancing north-
ward in the direction of Paraskevi. The
Greeks repulsed an attempt of the Turks
to cross the bridge at 5 o'clock this morn-
ing. A number of Greeks, among whom
were several officers, were killed, and oth-
ers were wounded.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 20.—A second
Turkish squadron left the Golden Horn
this afternoon for the Darndanelles. It
consists of the ironclad Orhenien, the
monitor Hifsiraman, the Corpette Mansou-
ra, five torpedo boats and four steamers
which have been converted into cruisers.
Prince Mavrocordato, the Greek minister
to Turkey, has sailed for Athens. All the
ambassadors except the German ambassa-
dor went to the quay to bid him fare-
well.
Edhem Pasha, has wired the sultan that
he gained severable notable victories yes-
terday, occupying all the fortified positions
commanding Tyrnavo. He reports that
the Greeks evacuated their entrenched
camp, leavihg behind thirty cases of cart-
ridges and many cases of rifles. The
Turks, he says, have taken Velitzko, whieh |
the Greeks surprised and captured on the
first day of the frontier aggression.
The Turkish commander at Janina an-
nounces that the Greek fleet which has
been bombarding Prevesu, has been com-
pelled to retire, one division withdrawing to
the interior of the gulf, and the larger iron
clads outside sailing for the islands of Paxo-
and Sancta, Laura.
An official telegram from Zanthi asserts
that the Greeks, who landed at Eleuthero-
polin and reached Gojrat. near the railway,
were attacked and defeated by Turkish:
troops and peasants, and that 100 Greeks’
were killed.
ATHENS, April 20.—MIDNIGHT—News
has just reached here that the Greeks,
after a desperate battle, have captured and
burned Damasi. Another division of the
Greek troops, it is reported, has traversed
the Reveni Pass and captured three block
houses. This division has almost reached
Damasi, where it will effect a union with
the force that captured the town. The
30,000 troops under General Smolenitz dis-
played the greatest bravery.
Revini lies twelve miles northwest of
Larissa. Edhem Pasha, with a force var-
iously estimated at from 10,000 to 14,000
troops, led seven assaults against it yes-
terday, but all were repulsed by the
Greeks.
Crown Prince Constantin has telegraphed
here that the Turks at that point were
completely and finally repulsed.
In Athens greater attention has been
paid to the operations in the neighborhood
of Reveni to those of Milouna Pass. The
theory all along has been if the Greeks
could establish themselves at Damasi their
road would lie open to Elassona.
The exact situation at Tyrnavo is some-
what in doubt. The news from that point
is conflicting, but there is no confirmation
of the rumor that the place has been cap-
tured by the Turks. What seems to have
happened is that Tyrnavo was evacuated
in order to send troops forward to Reveni
and was then re-occupied by troops return-
ing from Milouna.
MiLOUNA Pass, April 20.—EVENING—
The Turks have just commenced to shell
the town of Tyrnavo. All the roads lead-
ing to Larissa are crowded with fugitives,
shouting ‘‘Reserves, don’t try conclusions
{ with the Turks.
The Greek villages in the plain are com-
pletely deserted.
life
The Whar “Still Goes On and Greece
Seems to be In the Lead.
More Fighting at Damasi.—G@reeks are-Cannon-
ading the Town.—Thé Turks Abandon Strevina
After Firing the City In Many Places.—Italian
Troops Leave For Crete.
ATHENS, April 21.—6 P. M.—Prince Con-
stantin. the crown prince and commander
in-chief of the Greek army, has just left
Larissa for the battlefield.
The Turks to-day tried to capture the
post of the Prophet Eli, on the road to the
Tyrnavo, but were repulsed. The last se-
ries of the Greek reserves has now been
called out and fresh troops have heen sent
to the frontier.
The bombardment of Prevesa, at the
Gulf of Arta, has been very heavy since
early this morning. The Turkish gar-
rison there has been completely isolated by
the advance of the Greek troops.
The report that the Greek fleet to-day
bombarded Platomona, on the west shore
of the Gulf of Salonica, is confirmed. The
Greek fleet also bombarded the town of
Laptnokarya, adjoining Platomona. The
powder magazines of the Turks at Planto-
mona was exploded by a Greek shell causing
much damage and loss of life to the
enemy.
7 p. M.—Fighting has been renewed at
Damasi, which is being cannonaded by a
Greek brigade advancing from Boughazi.
The Turks have occupied the ports of
Ligaria and Karatzo, which are strategi-
cally unimportant, while the Greeks have
advanced and occupied the Slati hill.
A despatch from Arta says that the
Turks have abandoned Strevina, beyond
Filippiada; after burning it. The bombard-
ment of Prevesa continues, with increasing
damage to the forts.
After bombarding Platamona the squad-
ron will proceed to Katerina.
Foor or MILOUNA Pass, April 20.—
( Afternoon—Delayed in transmission.)
The last height commanding Tyrnavo has
just been captured by the Turks. The
infantry advance wassupported by cavalry,
the soldiers cheering lustily as they began
the attack.
Mondou Pasha has prepared to descend {a unanimous vote.
at 9 a. m. to-morrow in the Thessalian
plain. Taking the road to the left, which
skirts along the base of foot hills, large
bodies of cavalry will push forward to the
front, while the infantry take possession of
the buildings which the Greeks have left
in their hurried retreat.
It was the task of Neschat Pasha to at-
tack the Ihposki heights, the last Greek
stronghold commanding Tyrnavo. The
Turkish batteries, each gun dragged by
fifty men, pushed forward and bombarded
the Greek position. A deep ravine lay be-
tween the infantry forces of the two armies,
It was strewn with heavy rocks and loose
boulders. After sharp fighting the Greek’
batteries withdrew, but the Greek infantry
continued to defend the position until com-
pelled to retire
Heavy firing has been heard from ‘the
directiou of Zarkos throughout the after-
noon, and the struggle of Karya still con-
tinues, each side in turn advancing and
retreating across the frontier.
Reinforcements were sent from this point
last night (Monday) to Hamdi Pasha at
Kayra. When they arrive there it is ex-
pected that the Greeks will finally be re-
pulsed.
The Greeks are now strongly entrenched
on-the plain north west of Larissi. Edham
Pasha is acting with the greatest caution
and deliberation.
MiLouNA Pass, April 20.—(NIGHT.
delayed in transmission).—The Greek
posts at Milouna and Tyrnavo were cap-
tured at noon to-day. The Turkish head-
quarters have been removed from Milouna.
It is estimated that the Greek forces now
in the Thessalian plain, in front of Edhem
Pasha and betweet this point and Larissa,
number at least 60,000, but the Greek pris-
opers say that their reserves are exhausted.
A military telegraphic line has been ex-
tended to Milouna, but as yet there is no
postal service. From the heights can be
seen huge clouds of dust in the distance,
which indicate that large bodies of Greek
infantry are en route from Larissa to de-
fend the heights not yet captured at Tyrna-
vo. But they will probably be too late.
The coolness and courage of the Turks in
attack is beyond praise.
ATHENS, April 21st.—The crown prince
has sent several regiments to relieve those
which have been fighting at Reveni bat the
latter refuse to leave the scene, although
they have been actively engaged, almost
without cessation for nearly fifty hours.
Telegrams from Prevesa say the town
would have been occupied by the Greeks,
but it was impossible to spare the men.
Major Anzolinos, who gave the order for
the abandonment of Gritzovali, has been
replaced by Colonel Papastavre.
Colonel Manos is meeting with but lit-
tle opposition. The Turks are collecting
at Pentepgivia, twenty miles south of Jani-
na, where a decisive battle is expected,
which will settle the fate of Janina.
BERLIN, April, 21st.—It is reported here
to-night in well informed circles that the
Russian government has asked permission
of the sultan ‘for the Russian Black sea
fleet to pass through the Dardanelles. The
Baltic Sea fleet is also ready to start under
sealed orders.
PARIS, April 21st.—A dispatch to the
Temps from Constantinople says that Ed-
hem Pasha, the Turkish commander-in-chief
has telegraphed to the porte from Tyrnavo
that two divisions, under Mendou Pasha,
and Omervechat Pasha, are now *pursuing
the Greek forces, who are in full retreat.
Edhem Pasha also reports that these di-
visions have arrived within two kilometres
of Larissa.
He adds that his troops have commenced
the investment of Larissa and that Men-
dou Pascha and Omerechat Pasha expect
to capture. it within three days.
ATHENS, April 21st. — MIDNIGHT. —
Crown Prince Constantin telegraphs from
Larissa, the head quarters of the Greek
forces in Thessaly :
‘We have kept all our positions and the
situation to-day is excellent. Every ‘road
by which the Turks can descend into the
Thessalin plain has been secured by the
concentration of our troops. [ cannot wire
at greater length now. I am fighting my-
self. So is Prince Nicholas.”’
The Board of Pardons Save Gentry
From the Gallows.
HARRISBURG, April 20.—The board of
pardons has recommended that the sen-
tence of James B. Gentry be commuted to
imprisonment. The decision was
made public to-night by the board along
with the reasons for its action. It is offi-
cially announced that the recommendation
will be approved by Governor Hastings.
Gentry was to have been hanged at Phila-
delphia Thursday for the murder of his
sweetheart, Margaret Drysdale, alias
Madge York, an actress; two years ago,
in a Philadelphia Hotel.
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the State
( Concluded Jfaom page 1.)
The Good Times We Were Promised.
with the company. A’ policy of retrerch-
ment was established about the beginning of
the year. Many men have been discharged,
wages have been reduced, the number of
working days in the week "lessened and the
‘amount of work per man increased
in the telegraph and train dispatching de-
partments. It is said that these retrench-
ments are only temporary.
Not Eanling Enough to Pay Rent.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch of April 16.
Bridgeport, O., April 15. — Secretary-trea-
surer T. A. Lewis, of the Ohio United Mine
workers, came home to-day from a trip over
in the interest of the union. He
says the ‘miners never showed so much in-
terest in the union as now, and that there
was never so large a proportion of the work-
ers organized.
Work is still very light, however, and in
many sections the men are not garning
enough to pay the rent and union dues, to
say nothing of feeding families. While the
conditions in the Jefferson and Belmont
fields are very bad, they are better than
elsewhere in the State.
Enthusiastic Democrats at Harrisburg.
State Committee and Other Members of the Jack-
sonian Party Turn Out Strong.—Mr. Garman
Was Re-elected.
HARRISBURG, April 21st.—When state
chairman, Garman took the gavel and
looked over the assemblage of the Demo-
cratic state central committee to-day he
remarked : ‘‘There is a promise of Demo-
cratic success in this gathering.”
Congressman Ermentrout, Chauncey F.
Black, ex-state chairman Kerr, Joseph
Sibley, Thomas Ryan, the new Philadel-
phia chairman ; Dewitt C. Dewit, B. F.
Meyers and a dozen of other Democrats
prominent in state affairs for years past sat
in the committee meeting and in answer to
repeated calls for addresses delivered speech-
es replete with enthusiasm and encourage-
ment for the future.
State chairman Garman was re-elected by
Reading was se-
lected as the place at which the next state
covention is go be held, and the executive
committee was empowered to fix the time
for holding the convention.
The morning trains had brought in a
big addition to the committeemen and
other Democrats, and during the forenoon
chairman Garman got a lot of them togeth-
er in the head quarters, where there was a
general discussion as to what the commit-
tee should do. 1t had been decided last
night to present resolutions before, but at
this morning conference it was thought that
the better plan would be not to have any
at all.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Black argued |.
that as the proper sort of resolutions would
naturally have to touch upon national af-
fairs, the last Democratic platform and the
candidacy of Bryan, it would be advisable
to let these important expressions be voiced
by the state eonvention. Chairman Gar-
man, Congressman FErmentrout and Ix-
Congressman Storm and Mutchler, with
nearly all the others at the conference,
agreed, and the matter of the resolutions
was dropped.
On the vote for the place of holding the
state convention, Reading was selected, re-
ceiving 33 votes, Harrisburg 9 and Wil-
liamsport 7. The committee then ad-
journed.
The following division chairmen were
elected by the respective division delega-
tions : First division, John A. Magee,
New Bloomfield, Perry county ; second.
R. M. Linton, Somerset ; third, John B.
Keenan, Greensburg ; fourth, wi Breen, |
Oil City ; s fifth,, George M. Bilger, Clear- |
field ; sixth, W. H. Halloway, Williams-
port ; seventh, Dewitt C. Dewitt, Towanda;
eight, M. L. C. Kline, Allentown ; ninth,
Charles I. Baker, Norristown, Montgomery
county. :
Reduced Rates to New York via Penn-
sylvania Railroad, Account Dedica~-
tion of Grant Monument.
For the dedication of the Grant monu-
mental tomb, April 27, the Pennsylvania
railroad company will sell excursion tick-
ets to New York to the general public from
all points on its line, .exclusive of Pitts-
burg and Erie proper, on April 26, and
from Altoona and Williamsport and inter-
mediate points, and stations and other di-
visions within one hundred and fifty miles
of New York, on April 26, and for trains
reaching New York before 12:10 noon on
April 27, at rate of single fare for the round
trip (no less rate than $1.00), good to re-
turn until May 4, inclusive. All tickets
via Philadelphia are good to stop off in
that city within the hmrit: Tickets for
military and other organizations in uni-
form; numbering twenty-five or more,
traveling in a body on one ticket, will be
sold on same dates, from points not less
than twenty-five miles from New York, at
a further reduction. For specific rates
apply to ticket agents.
The parade on this occasion will be the
grandest military ‘demonstration since the
war. Thousands -of veterans, United
States regulars, and State militiamen will
be in line.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——The test oil well in Gallagher town-
ship, Clinton county, is down 2,700 feet
and they are going still deeper.
> —
——The Pennsylvania Stute College
base ball team opened the season rather in-
auspiciously, last Saturday, on Beaver
field, by being beaten by the Lock Haven
Normal school team. Score 9 to 4. The
team started on its regular spring trip,
Tuesday night, and played the University
of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, Wed-
nesday, going down before the red and
blue by the score of 21 to 3. Yesterday
they played at Fordham and will meet
Princeton to-day. The team is not nearly
as strong as in former years, but with this
practice the boys will more than likely re-
trieve themselves before the season ends.
ONE-HALF FARE TO NEW YORK.—On
account of the dedication of the Grant
monument, April 27th, the Central R. R.
of Penn’a., will, on April 26th, sell special
excursion tickets from C. R. R. of Pa.
tickets offices to New York and return at one
way fare for the round tiip. These tickets
will be good for return passage on or before
May 4th, and admit of stop-off in Phila-
deélphia, going or returning, within time
limit. Rate from Salona $7.73 and fiom
points west thereof, to and including Belle-
fonte, $7.91.
aCe
His Bac
iny Knouff,
who will F 3 Bellefonte’s
crack base ae season the
Mountain ) sistence, islying’
in the Pen J tal, in Philadel-
phia, witk 5.
He wa e ‘ie fire department
in the Q while working at a
fire, at ¢.1 Lia reet, a few nights ago,
he fell from a dadder and broke his back.
He cannot recover.
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RHOADS’ COAL OFFICE BURGLARIZED.
—At some hour Monday night, or early
Tuesday morning, burglars entered the of-
fice of Edward K. Rhoads, coal and grain
dealer, on Race street. An entrance was
effected through a window on the south
side of the office, which is so located as to
furnish a good cover for such work.
Every drawer in both offices was ran-
sacked and the money drawers forced open,
but only $1.38 repaid the intruders for
their trouble. The large safe in Mr.
Rhoad’s private office is scarred &n a num-
ber of places as if cat with a chisel. The
handles are bent and the combination knob
battered a little, all of which appears very
much as if the work was done by amateurs
who wanted to make it appear that they
might have blown the safe had they felt
like it.
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PHILLIPSBURG TO HAVE A NEW BANK.
—The town of Philipsburg is to have a
new bank to be known as the Moshannon
national bank. The capital stock will be
$50,000, fifty per cent. of which is to be
paid in at once. The new institution will
be located in the room occupied by the old
Moshannon banking company and the fol-
lowing officers will have charge ; President,
T. Barnes, Philipsburg; vice president,
J. N. Schoonover, Philipsburg ; secretary,
E. E. Jimeson, Morrisdale; cashier,
Charles J. Avery, Carbondale, now cashier
of the first National bank of that place.
The directors are: Thos. Barnes, J. N.
Schoonover, James Passmore, Dr. L. C.
Harmon, W. C. Andrews, Adam Moyer,
Philipsburg ; E. E. Jimeson, Morrisdale ;
J. J. Jermyn, C. H. Schadt, Scranton.
The new bank is expected to be open for
business by May 1st. - Mr. James L. Som-
erville, formerly of this place, is interested
in it.
os
New spring clothing just opened at
Faubles’. Prices much lower than ever.
It will pay you to investigate.
ere
Is THIS THE YEAR FOR THE LOCUSTS ?
—An exchange sends out the warning that
the seventeen year old locusts are coming
to scourge the land this year. However it
may be there will be no need of getting un-
duly alarmed before their arrival.
By June and July you will doubtless
hear their rasping screech throughout
the land. ‘‘His last engagement with this
section was in 1880, when myriads of the
troublesome insects did considerable dam-
| age to vegetation.”’ It is a mistake to sup-
pose that the seventeen year locust is a ser-
i ious scourge. They subsist on roots and
t fibres when in the earth. in the grub state,
| and eat but little, if anything, when above
ground. The chief damage they inflict is
trees, making grooves in which to deposit
their eggs. They cuta wide swath in this
line for about six weeks, then they perish,
and their larvas, falling from the trees, en-
ter the ground as a grub, which is trans-
formed from one state to another until a
cycle of seventeen years roll around, when
he again makes his debut as a screeching lo-
cust.
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EASTER IN THE BELLEFONTE
CHURCHES.—ASs announced would be the
case in our edition of last Friday the music
features in the various Bellefonte churches
took precedence over all others in the
Easter services. Everyone of the choirs
made special effort and it is putting it
mildly to say that they surpassed any pre-
vious undertaking for a similar occasion.
Possibly the most attention was at-
tracted by the music at the Presbyterian
and Episcopal churches, where there were
crowds morning and evening. At the
former the entire evening service was given
up to one of song. An excellent program
of chorus, quartet and solo numbers was
rendered in such a way as to show off to
the best advantage the voices involved
and the master hand of W. T. Meyer was
evident in the faithful manner in which
the music was interpreted. .
At the Episcopal church the boy chor-
isters rendered the difficult Easter music
which organist Reeve had arranged for
them in a most pleasing manner. That
choir is unusually well balanced and is
now finer than it has been for years.
A GREAT DAY FOR ODD FELLOWS. —
The Central Pennsylvania Odd Fellows as-
sociation will hold the largest demonstra-
tion in its history on the twenty-sixth of
this month in Mount Carmel, Pa. The
local committee are making extensive prep-
arations to receive the visiting lodges.
The various mining operations will sus-
pend work on that occasion and the rail-
roads have given a special low rate of fare.
The town will be handsomely decorated.
The following named grand lodge officers
will be present: Amos H. Hall, grand
master; W. Gaylord Thomas, deputy
grand master ; Samuel McKeever, grand
warden : Esau Loomis, grand conductor ;
by the scoring or ringing of twigs on the
R. H. Graham, grand marshall ; James
Montgomery, grand guardian ; Warren H. |
Coggswell, grand high priest of the grand
encampment. A large number of cantons,
encampments and subordinate lodges from
Schuylkill, Northumberland, Lycoming, |
Montour, Columbia, Union, Tioga, Snyder, |
Dauphin, Carbon ‘and Luzerne counties |
will be represented in the monster parade.
{ Shamokin will send nearly a thousand Odd |
| Fellows.
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THE STORY 18 Nor TRUE. -Evidtngy
for a malicious purpose some one has started
a story to the effect that L. C. Bullock, the
Milesburg carriage dealer, and George Van
Tries, of this place, had ‘‘squeezed’’ livery-
man George Beezer out of the business and
had taken his stable, turning it over to
Will Larimer to run for them. Mr. Bul-
lock emphatically denies being a party to
any such a transaction and wants the pub-
lic to know that he has had nothingt «Jo
with the stable or the deal, except ina
purely legitimate, business way.
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FosTER'S WEATHER OUTLOOK.—‘‘My
last bulletin gave forecasts of the storm
wave to cross the continent from 16th to
20th, and the next will reach the Pacific
coast about 21st, cross the west of Rockies
country by close of 22nd, great central val-
leys 23rd to 25th, eastern States 26th.
Warm wave will cross the west of Rockies
country about 21st, great central valleys
23rd, eastern States 24th. - Cool wave will
cross-the- west of Rockies country about
25th, great central valleys 26th, eastern
States 28th. The prominent feature of
this storm will be the very cool weather
that will accompany the cool wave.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.—Following is the
list of marriage licenses granted by or-
phan’s court clerk, G. W. Rumberger, dur-
ing the past week.
Arthur C. Young, of Hecla, Pa., and
Emma M. Minnick, of Nittany, Pa.
George E. Seibert and Nora B. Thomp-
son, both of Benner township.
John H. Crossmire, of Curtins Works,
and Cadence Bridge, of Marion township.
John H. Maffet, of Osceola, Clearfield
county, and Alice J. Fleck, of Julian, Pa.
Henry H. Clark and Maud C. Bitner,
both of Eagleville, Pa.
Rev. Oliver Govnall, of Apollo, Pa., and
Phoebe Ann Lamb, of Philipsburg, Pa.
John I. Gray, of Halfmoon township,
and Nannie C. Woodring, of Port Matilda.
Chas. A. Miller and Ida M. Lee, both of
Colyer.
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Captain James A. Leyden.
FOURTH INFANTRY,
Fort Sheridan, Ill.
April, 11th, 1897.
With grief, the Regimental Commander an-
nounces to the Regiment the death at this
post, on the afternoon of the 10th instant, af-
ter an illness of only seven days, of Captain
James A. Leyden.
He was born at Chattanvoga, Tennessee,
May 3rd, 1856, and appointed Cadet, U. S.
Military Academy, in 1875. Graduating
from the Academy in 1879, he was commis-
sioned in the Fourth Infantry and was there-
after thoroughly identified with it. Its his-
torian, and from July, 1890, till July, 1894, its
adjutant, he was familiar with the minutest
detail of its eventful history, and did much
by example and precept to maintain its good
name. In whatever duties he was engaged,
whether in garrison, campaign, or in ex-
ploration of country little known before he
visited it, his characteristics were perfect re-
liability and thoroughness.
He was a pure minded and honorable gen-
tleman whose congenial companionship we
shall sorely miss.
In respect for his memory, the officers of
the regiment will wear the usual badge of
mourning for thirty i
. B. DUNCAN.
Ist Lieutenant and Ei Fourth Infantry.
By order of COLONEL HALL.
GENERAL ORDERS, )
No.
Nittany Valley Items.
Oscar Harris is in Jersey, Shore.
Elwood Winkleman is on the sick list.
Irvin Robb has again taken his departure.
Miss Dora Shope spent Sunday in Miles-
burg. :
The Easter services at Snydertown were
a success.
The Evans., of this place, have organized a
Sunday school. ~
"A. A. Pletcher has gone to Washington,
D. C., to visit his brother.
Miss Belle Schaffer visited Parvin recently.
We hope she had a nice time.
Miss Jennie Tweed has gone to Jersey
Shore to spend the summer.
Miss Jessie McCaleb has returned home,
her school having closed last week.
Miss Dowe, of Madisonburg, visited Miss
Mattie Winkleman, during the past week.
Miss Clara Robb spent several days last
week with her brother Nelson Robb, of
Bellefonte.
Mrs. Irvin Reber, Miss Edna Reber and
Raymond Allison, of Howard, spent Sun-
day with Mrs. A. A. Pletcher and daughter.
Mrs. Matilda Webner, widow of Jas. Web-
ner, deceased, died the 11th. inst., and was
buried in the Snydertown cemetery. Many
relatives and friends followed her to her last
resting place. Rev. Koontz, conducted the
services.
Pine Grove Mention.
Our friend J. B. Ard has been confined to
the house with the grip.
The WATCHMAN is receiving many com-
plements for its beautiful Easter costume.
Mrs. S. S. McCormick, of Hublersburg, is a
welcome guest at the Dannley home on Main
street, where friends and strangers always
received a royal welcome.
The recent hard freezes delayed some of
our forenoon farmers from finishing oats and
barley seeding. It is feared the fehl was
badly damaged.
The many friends of rime Bell
will be glad to learn of her convalescing from
a severe attack of grip that almost culminat-
; ed in pneumonia.
Barber Graham, of State College, with his
family Sundayed with W. A. Tanyer, on
Main street, delighted with the appearance
| of the vegetable kingdom.
C. B. McCormick is bestirring himself tak-
ing orders for binder twine to be delivered
at your barn at lowest prices. He believes in
| quick sales and small profits.
Cap’t. Geo. M. Kepler is in receipt of bad
| news from Corry, where his dwelling was