Terms, $2.00 a Year, in Advance. |
Bellefonte, Pa., July 2, 1897.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - EDITOR.
No Paper Next Week.
According to the custom of old time
country weeklies the WATCHMAN will not
be issued next week, because the editor
and all of his employees expect to have a
good old time Fourth of July and there is
no telling how soon we will get over it. It
has not been decided to which watering
place we will go, but it will either be
Roopsburg or Pleasant Gap.
The office will be kept open ail next
week by some sober, intelligent person,
who would be glad to have you all cali and
pay him any money you owe or order any
work you might need.
—As was expected all of the investiga-
tion committees have made their reports
and it appears that every one of them must
have visited a lime pit, from the amount
of white-wash they have presented to the
State.
Ohio Democrats Nominate a Strong
Ticket.
CoLuMBUs, O., June 30.—The Demo-
cratic state convention adjourned to-night,
after nominating a state ticket headed by
Horace L. Chapman for Governor, and
adopting a platform which, among other
things, demands the free and unlimited
coinage of both gold and silver at a ratio
of 16 to 1, without waiting for other na-
tions ; demands the suppression of all
trusts and monopolies, and favors imme-
diate recognition of the belligerent rights
of the republic of Cuba.
Mr. Chapman, the nominee for Gov-
ernor, is a large owner and operator of coal
mines in Jackson and other counties. He
has always participated in Democratic
campaigns, but has never held any office
and has never before been a candidate.
He has never had a strike in his mines and
is popular with the miners. Chapman was
nominated on the second ballot and the
nomination was then made unanimous.
Although, it is said, the McLean men in
their conference had agreed to go to Chap-
man, they scattered their vote on both
ballots so as to dissipate as much as possible
tke report that McLean was naming the
state ticket.
It is stated that there is an implied ar-
rangement for John RR. McLean for United
States Senator, with the state candidates,
as well as the party organization, for him.
Still it is reported that ex-Congressman
Paul J. Sorg will also be in the field for
Senator.
The ticket nominated is as follows :
Governor, Horace L. Chapman ; lieuten-
ant Governor, Melville D. Shaw ; supreme
judge, J. P. Spriggs ; attorney general,
W. H. Dore ; state treasurer, James F.
Wilson ; hoard of public works, Peter H.
Degnan ; school commissioner. Byron H.
Hurd.
The State Fair at Johnstown.
The advisory hoard of the state fair met
at the Merchant's hotel, Johnstown, on
Wednesday, June 23rd, at which president
McDowell, of Washington, Pa. ; treasurer
Rutherford, and C. H. Bergner, Esq., of
Harrishurg, representing the state agricul-
tural society, and Mr. F. A. Creswell, presi-
dent; Dr. A. N. Wakefield, M. B. Ste-
phens, Esq., and F. J. O'Connor, Esq.,
representing the tri-county agricultural
and driving park association, were present.
Mr. MeDowell was chosen president of
the committee, and Mr. Cresswell secretary.
The latter was also elected general man-
ager of the state fair, to whom all corre-
spondence should be directed.
It was decided to give $6,000 in pre-
miums to the speed ring and in the neigh-
borhood of $20,000 in other premiums.
The dates have already been fixed, to be
September 6th to 11th inclusive.
The next meeting of the advisory board
will be at Johnstown, Jnly 6th, at 8 p. m.
A fair of greater magnitude than last
year’s successful one is almost assured, as
the local management is better prepared
and Johnstown is alive to its interest in
having a great suceess. .
Information can be had by correspond-
ing with F. A. Cresswell, general mana-
ger state fair, Johnstown, Pa.
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Insurance Scandal.
Committee Will Report That All Charges Are
Unfounded
HARRISBURG, June 28.—The committee
to investigate the charges made that certain
Senators had attempted to blackmail the
New York Metropolitan life insurance com-
pany out of $50,000,held their final meet-
ing to-night. Frank H. Leonard, the New
York agent, who wouldn’t appear at any
of the meetings, sent in an affidavit denying
the charge. He avers that any conversations
made by him in connection with the mat-
ter were made on his own authority, and if
he ever mentioned any members of the leg-
islature in such conversations it was done |
“without the knowledge or consent of any-
one whose name may have been mention-
ed.”
The commitee’s report will say that all
the charges are unfounded.
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Did the Mule Touch Schlatter
From the Clearfield Public Spirit.
Schlatter, the strange healer or would-be |
Messiah of the Rocky mountains, is no
| $12,000 extra.
The Appropriation Bill. |
The Document Was Greatly Changed in the Sen-
ate and the House Refused to Concur in the
Amendments.
When the general appropriation hill
came over from the Senate to-day it was a
much different document than it was when
the House sent it to the upper branch. Nu-
merous items have been put on and great
expense added to the State. Itis customary
that when an amendment to a bill is made
the new portion is printed in italics. In
this way the strange matter can easily be
picked out. The Senate broke this rule
and put in a number of items in the
same kind of type the original is printed
in.
The House refused to concur and the hill
is in the hands of a conference committee.
It will come out to-night or to-morrow
morning, and there will be plenty of hard
fighting. In the second section of the bill
the Senate put in an increase of $168,812.-
36. $1,223,507.93 is asked for the pay-
ment of the salaries of the state officers,
clerks and employes in the several depart-
ments of the state government and for inci-
dental expenses. When the bill went to
the Senate this sum was $1,054,690.57.
The word ‘‘departments’’ does not mean
for the judiciary and Legislature.
WHERE THE INCREASES ARE MADE.
The sections of the bill where this in-
crease is asked for has been carefully gone
over and $162,915.28 can be accounted for.
This leaves $5,897.08 that is not appropri-
ated for any particular purpose. The $162-
915.28 is made up in the following way :
$1,200 each for Attorney General, Auditor
| General and State Treasurer as members
| of the board of public accounts ; $1,200 for
Secretary of internal affairs as member of
the board of property ; $1,800 night watch-
man in the state department ; $6,600 of an
increase in the bureau of statistics ; $4,000,
for salary of the Superintendent of the
bureau of railways for four years; $1,000,
for incidentals in the bureau of mines;
$12,000 for hooks for the state library.
For labor and fitting up of the Grace
church, Senate and House committee rooms
and offices now occupied by the Game and
Fish commissioner, Forestry commissioner
and Department of Public Instruction, $56,-
590.36 ; $20,000, for rent of Grace church
and putting it in shape for the congrega-
tion after the adjournment of the Legisla-
ture ; $300, for storage of church furniture;
$171,50, for removing furniture ; $853.42,
for rent of committee rooms ; $4,820, for
examination of the timber in the State and
the cause of destroying our growing tim-
ber ; $15,000, for the investigation of
‘‘causes, nature, treatment and prevention
of diseases of domestic animals ;’ $25,-
000, an addition of $10,000, for expenses
of the dairy and food commissioners ; $25,-
000, for a new quarantine boat for Phil-
adelphia.
THE COST OF THE LEGISLATURE.
In the items above it will be noticed that
$20,000 is given Grace church. When the
Legislature went in the church there was
no agreement about rent. The debt of the
church is $16,000. In the judiciary depart-
ment there is no change in the hill.
This Legislature will cost $644,617.92. |
When the bill went to the Senate the sum
was $634,947.10. It has been increased $9,-
670.82. This sum is made up by a bill of
$2,600 for traveling expenses of the Sena-
torial appropriation committee, $1,000 for
the salary of Lucius Rogers, clerk of the
Senate appropriation committee, and $6,-
026.82 for traveling expenses of the House
appropriation committee. The session of
1895 cost the State $624,089.37.
In the Senate this morning $1,000,000
was taken off of the public schools. There
was a fight made and the amendment
amount was restored. The Senate then
took $260,000 off the Normal schools. This |
was done to club the House into voting for
the bill to increase the liquor licenses.
The $1,223,502.92 referred to above was
supposed to cover all the expenses of the
departments on the Hill, but in other
places in the bill $142.000 are found. This
money is appropriated for incidental ex-
penses and other things ; $108,000 is for
the mine inspectors. This item should come
under the Secretary of Internal Affairs
heading. These mine inspectors are allowed
Two thousand dollars are
allowed for incidental expenses of the Board
of Pardons ; $3,000 each is allowed the At-
torney General, Auditor General, State
Treasurer. Secretary of the Commonwealth
aud Secretary of Internal Affairs, for inci-
dentals. The Lieutenant Governor is given
$1,000 in pin money and the Executive
Department $4,000 for incidentals. Chief
Clerk Smiley of the State asks for $128 for
preparing apportionment maps.
COST OF LEGISLATIVE FUNERALS.
The Senate has increased the funeral cx-
penses of thelate John Lemon, of Blair,
from $1,100 to $1,312. For the payment of
the funeral expenses of the late W. H. Cas-
sin, who was a member from Philadelphia
four years ago, $401.50 is wanted. Mr.
Cassin died during the present session. Six
hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty-
cents is asked for the funeral expenses of
D. D. Philips, of Schuylkill. Mr. Phillips
was a member of the House in 1885.
Sergeant-at-Arms Eyre asks $50 for serv-
ing the writ for the special senatorial elec-
tion which elected Senator Durham, of
Philadelphia. The Auditor-General is al-
lowed $3,000 for the clerical expenses in
preparing the tax conference report. The
committee that investigated the Auditor-
General and State treasurer's offices asks
$3,234.81.
Charles Ettla wants $450.80 for services
as secretary of the committee to investigate
the Eastern and Western penitentiaries.
George Baker wants a similar sum for act-
ing as doorkeeper for the committee. The
delegates to the coast defense conference
held in Tampa, ask for $1,000 to pay the
expenses.
Factories to Close.
ANDERSON, Ind., June 28.—The Na-
| tional tin plate company to-day posted no-
| tice of a shut-down, on Thursday morning,
as per contract for a readjustment of the
wage scale. At the same time all the un-
more. The sensation he created last vear | 100 tin plate factories in the country will
and the year before on account of his | cose. The conferences of manufacturers
mysterious and almost Divine cures will he | 21d workmen wage committees will begin
remembered vividly. An army of invalids | dt Pittsburg next Saturday. All the un-
from all over the country traveled to his | 100 Window glass factories are preparing to
home in Denver to see him to receive the close down on Wedneseay of this week for
healing touch or to be cured by merely |# rendjustment of the wage scale. The
touching the hem of his garment. Schlat- |
window glass shut-down will cause 15,000
ter took his mule and a goodly supply and | Men to lie idle, while the tin plate closing
started on a wandering tour down through |
Colorado into New Mexicoand into a track- |
less mountain where his skeleton was |
found lately under a tree.
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Famous Bible Sold.
LONDON, June 28. —At the Ashburnham
library sale to-day the famous Mazarin or
Gutenberg Bible in vellum fetched £4,000.
The first Latin Bible, with the date 1500
and several others sold for $1,000 each.
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lays off about 12,000 men.
Sullivan Working Like a Beaver.
NEW YORK, June 28.—John L. Sullivan
is working like a beaver at Muldoon’s re-
treat, near White Plains, so that he may
make a good showing in his six-round bout
with Fitzsimmons on July 35th. Nobody
expects him to get into the best of trim on
such short notice, but the indications are
» | that he will be able to give the champion a
| good argument for six rounds.
| that he has not drank alcoholic liquors
It is said
| since last October.
Miners to Strike.
One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand of Them
Are Asking for Higher Wages.
NEW YORK, June 29.—The Journal to-
day, in a special dispatch from Pittsburg,
will say :
Acting under orders from the national
officials of their union, 125,000 coal miners
in five states will strike for higher wages on
Saturday, July 3.
The edict has gone forth to the rank and
file from the national officers of the United
Mine Workers in Columbus, O. The bat-
tle ground of this great conflict will cover
the coal centres of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana
and West Virginia and the great bitumin-
ous section in western Pennsylvania
known as the Pittsburg district.
The strike order results from a four-day’s
consultation in Columbus between the
members of the national executive board of
the Miners’ union and the district presi-
dents. The session concluded early Sun-
day morning. To every member of the
conference there had been submitted a long
list of questions on the condition in his dis-
trict, and when all the reports had been re-
ceived and debated a strike was decided to
be the only logical action.
The price demanded by the miners is 69
cents per ton, based on the thin vein region
of western Pennsylvania. Allowing for the
customary differentials, this will give 60
cent rate in Ohio and a corresponding fig-
ure in the various fields in Indiana, Illinois
and West Virginia.
At the present time the miners are get-
ting 54 cents in Pittsburg, and on last
Saturday a conference was held in Colum-
bus between the Ohio miners and operators,
at which the employers demanded that the
rate in the Buckeye field be reduced from
55 to 51 cents.
In Illinois and Indiana the miners have
been working for anything they can get,
doing it, too, at the advice of their officers.
But this policy was not entirely successful.
So restless did the miners of the Pittshurg
district become that the men were called
together in special convention three weeks
ago to receive the warning that premature
aggression might jeopardize the final out-
come of the strike.
The outlook for the miners’ success in
this fight is not favorable. The manifesta-
tions of restlessness in all sections warned
the operators of impending strife. For
two weeks they have been storing coal.
There are fifty miles of loaded cars on the
siding in the vicinity of the great coal
shipping centre of Cleveland.
The railroads in the Pittsburg district |
have not heen able to supply the unusual |
demand for cars made by the operators. |
In several places the railroads themselves
have stored up great quantities of coal. At! hurdy-gurdy dance in the armory, Wed- |
the end of the Twenty-second street bridge | nesday evening,
in Pittsburg a great force of men dumped
coal from coal trains all day Sunday.
Among the Miners.
These in Illinois Are Out—A Meeting to be Held In
Pittsburg.
JoLIET, Ill., June 30th—W. D. Ryan,
state secretary of the Illinois Miners’ asso-
ciation, to-day issued notice that all work
on the Illinois field would be stopped at |
once and that a national suspension was a
certainity.
The miners in the Wilmington field
stopped work to-day.
Under the present scale they claim that
they can make but nine cents an hour.
The strike will effect 20,000 Illinois min-
ers.
PITTSBURG, June 30th—A delegate con-
vention of coal miners from the Pittsburg |
district has been called for next Saturday
hy district president Dolan, at which the
miners will decide whether or not a strike
will be inaugurated fora higher rate. The
call says all miners unorganized will be en-
titled to represent action.
In speaking to a correspondent of the
Associated Press to-day president Dolan
said : ‘“There will be nostrike of miners at
this time unless the convention decides in
favor of such actions If a strike is inaugu-
rated in the Pittsburg district there is no
doubt that the diggers in all other mining
States will join in.the movements.”
It seems that a general strike order was
to have been issued, contingent on certain
circumstances. These circumstances have
not developed and the plans of the leaders
were spoiled by the premature report that
the order had been issued. There is a grow-
ing sentiment on the part of the miners to
strike and it is probable that but little
coal will be dug in the Pittsburg district
after Monday.
Two Excursion Trains Collide.
As a Result Three Persons Were Killed Outright
and More Than a Score Seriously Injured Near
Chicago. Railroaders Lose Their Lives.
CHICAGO, June 30th — Three persons
were killed outright and about twenty or |
thirty persons injured in a rear-end collis- |
ion on the Chicago & Northwestern road at
West Chicago, on the Galena division.
The dead are : John Gooding, Appleton,
Wis ; Mrs. R. Shipman, Appleton, Wis ;
Cadet From Westmoreland.
Congressman Robbins Recommends Wn: HM. Col-
ville for Appointment.
WASHINGTON, June 28.—As a result of
the competitive examination that has been
held for the West Point cadetship from the
Twenty-first Pennsylvania district. Con-
gressman Robbins to-day recommended the
appointment of William M. Colville, of
Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland county, as
cadet, he having stood highest among the
10 young men who entered the examina-
tion. Samuel Sickenburg, of Homer City,
was appointed alternate.
Young Colville’s father was a member of
the Fifteenth Pennsylvania cavalry, and
died from injuries received at the battle of
Gettysburg. The son was educated in the
soldiers’ orphans school.
Reduced Rates to Milwaukee via Penn-
sylvania Railroad on Account of the
National Educational Association.
The Pennsylvania railroad company an-
nounces that on account of the meeting of
the national educational association, at
Milwaukee, Wis., July 6th to 9th, it will
sell continuous passage tickets from all
points on its line east of Pittsburgand Erie
to Milwaukee at rate of single fare for the
round trip, plus $2.00 membership fee.
Tickets will be sold and will be good only
on July 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, and will be
good to return, leaving Milwaukee July
10th, 11th, and 12th, 1897, only, except
that by depositing ticket with joint agent
at Milwaukee on or before July 12th, and
on payment of fifty cents, an extension of
return limit may be obtained to leave Mil-
waukee until August 31st, 1897, inclusive.
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Half Rates to Toronto via Pennsylva-
nia Railroad on Account of Ep-
worth League Convention.
For the Epworth League international
convention, to be held at Toronto, Canada,
July 15th to 18th, the Pennsylvania rail-
road company will sell special tickets from
all points on its line to Toronto and return
at rate of single fare for the round trip.
These tickets will be sold and good going
July 14th and 15th ; good to return, leav-
ing Toronto not earlier than July 19th nor
later than July 24th, 1897, and will be
good only for continuous passage from Tor-
onto on date stamped.
For further information apply to ticket
agents.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
which was pronounced
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the most enjoyable one of the season.
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Standard lodge, No. 3562, G. U. 0.
| of O. F., of Bellefonte, will have a great
| celebration at Hecla park, on Thursday,
| July 22nd, Athletic sports, dancing and
| good eatables will be the inducements held
| out for a erowd that day.
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| -——Ex-county register John A. Rupp,
| owner of the large roller flour mill at Oak
Hall, made an assignment for the benefit of
| his creditors, on Wednesday. Mr. Rupp
has always been a careful, conscientious
business man and we trust his embarrass-
ment will be only of a temporary nature.
He owns three fine dwellings at Oak Hall
besides the mill. His liabilities are placed
at $12,000.
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LIME WORKERS STRIKE.—The em-
ployees of A. G. Morris, at the Morris sta-
tion and Brockerhoff quarries, refused to go
to work yesterday morning on a 10c re-
duction of wages
After the men had thought the matter
over all of those at the Brockerhoft quarry
returned to work, while those at the other
place did not go back until afternoon and
all of them, not then.
The men who would not go back have
been discharged.
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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT MILLHEIM.—
Weary of life and thinking that his two
sons and two daughters no longer cared
for him William Yearick, a gentleman of
leisure, of Millheim, drank a bottle of
laudanum, about noon Wednesday, and
has not been conscious since.
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Unidentified man, riding between engine |
and baggage car, supposed to be a tramp.
The victims of the collision were Chris-
tian Endeavor delegates who left Chicago
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Mr. Yearick has not lived with his wife
for some time aud it is supposed that do-
mestic trouble drove him to the rash act.
Had he not taken an overdose he would
have succeeded in killing himself. As it is
thought he will hardly recover.
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THE RETURN OF A BELLEFONTE Boy—
Now A MiIssIoNARY.—Many of our read-
ers will be interested in the following para-
last night, enroute for the great convention | graph from the Philipsburg Ledger. Tt re-
in San Francisco.
The colliding trains were sections Nos.
4 and 5 of a Christian Endeavor train sent |
out in nine sections, beginning at 10:30
p. m.
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lated to a boy who is well known in Belle- |
fonte where his family lived so long.
Rev. J. H. Orbison and family are recent
arrivals in this country from India, where
: i : Dr. Orbison and his wife have been filling
Section No. 5 ran into section No. 4, : : ined iN
which left Chicago fifteen minutes ahead of | A Important post in the Presbyterian mis-
it.
Section No. 4 carried the Wisconsin del-
egates, nearly five hundred strong. and in
the rear sleeper were people from Fond du
Lac, Green Bay, Appleton and other Wis-
consin cities.
Section No. 4 had come to a stop just out
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of West Chicago, where the Freeport line |
diverges from the main line. Section No.
5 came up behind at a great speed, and
the shock of the collision was terrific. :
The passengers in the two rear sleepers
of section No. 4 were all in their berths.
They received no warning, and those not
killed outright awoke to find themselves
jammed in the wreckage.
As soon as the wreck was reported to
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the head officers of the Chicago and North- |
western, Superintendent Stewart, of the
Galena division, ordered a special train and
went to the scene. Other officials dis-
patched messengers for the company’s doc-
tors, and Assistant General Superintendent
W. A. Gardner and a corps of surgeons left
immediately for West Chicago.
Many Were Drowned.
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 30.—A collision
took place in the Dardanelles to-day be-
tween the German vessels Rembeck and
Bethilde. The former sank almost imme-
diately, and fourteen of her crew were
drowned, while a boat that was sent to the
rescue, by the Australian guardship was
capsized, drowning two.
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| sion field for eleven years. Theyare now
entitled to a vacation of two years, which
will be spent in resting and by Dr. Orbi-
son, who is a medical missionary, in pur-
suing his medical studies, getting in touch
with the latest developments in the art of
healing. His mother and sister live at
Winburne, where the returned missiona- |
ries will spend a portion of the summer.
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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.
Lewis M. Stringfellow and Maggie G.
Simon, both of Clearfield.
James Morrison, of Bellefonte, and Mary
T. Cain, of Axe Mann.
Loyd B. Walker and Lottie M. Miller,
both of Rebersburg.
Henry C. Baney and Hannah E. Mayes,
both or Boggs.
Irvin Watkins, of Boggs, and Jennie
Kline, of Howard.
Joseph Ayers and Sarah Miller, both of
Spring township.
Edward J. Sweetwood and Dora Weaver,
both of Spring Mills.
William D. Marshall and Anna Huey,
both of Fillmore.
Lieut. George I.. Jackson gave al
THE MAGNET HAS SUSPENDED. — It
will be a matter of regret to the many
friends of Mr. Bailey, whose noble little
newspaper enterprise, The Magnet, has just
been forced to suspend publication, to
know that such an extremity has overtaken
him. The Magnet lived very near five
years in Bellefonte, but never was much of
a financial success.
Mr. Bailey is endeavoring to sell his
machinery and type at private sale.
GONE T0 EUROPE FOR RELICS.—Prof.
E. E. Sparks who had charge of the pre-
paratory department at The Pennsylvania
State College several years ago, has been
to which institution he went after resign-
ing at State. The Chicago Times-Herald
has the following account of his trip.
Professor Edwin Sparks, professor in
United States history at the University of
Chicago, left for Europe yesterday to be
gone three months. He goes in the interest
of the historical museum which the Univer-
sity will make efforts to establish as soon
as sufficient material has heen collected.
He will first go to Holland, where he will
trace the wanderings of the early Puritans
before they started for this country. His
relics of the period and other things that
may be of value to the museum. After this
sojourn among the Dutch he will take a
trip through France, Germany aud Eng-
land. paying particular attention to the
libraries, in order not to let any stray
pamphlets or rare relics escape him.
WHO CAN VOUCH FoR THIS STORY ?—
So many fairy-tales are going the round
of the press concerning Bellefonte and Cen-
tre county, just now. that one does not
know what to believe and every story that
is told is ‘“‘taken with a grain of allow-
ance.” The latest production, which we
aginative correspondent in this place, is
the following story that might interest you,
even if it should prove untrue :
While Farmer Smull, living in ‘the Nar-
rows’’ leading from Union into Centre
county, was digging stumps out of a piece
a purse of gold beneath the roots of a pine
stump. It contained but little over $200
{ in money, hut the make of the purse and
| the date of the coin have caused comment.
The coins were of a date prior to 1820,
| while the purse though badly decayed, could
| be make out to have been of cured buck-
| skin, home-made, and of the kind carried
three quarters of a century ago. Farmer
Smull is reticent regarding his find, and
for this reason some believe the purse larg-
er than stated.
There is no doubt that this is some of
the money hidden by the famous robbers,
Lewis and Connelly, who roamed this sec-
tion of country 70 years ago. ‘‘The Nar-
rows’’ was one of their favorite haunts, and
the finding of this money has given cause to
believe that there is more hidden in this sec-
tion.
It has been told by old men that a per-
son standing in the Centre county court
house door and looking due west to the
spur of the Muncy mountain, can see the
exact spot where there is a fortune in gold
buried by Lewis and Connelly, but though
many have endeavored to locate it none
have ever succeeded. The finding of this
money last week will undoubtedly give a
new impetus to searchers for the hidden
treasure, not only in that county, but in
Huntingdon, Bedford, Blair and Mifflin,
in all of which the robbers had favorite
camping grounds, and it has been alleged,
buried money.
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WHAT PLUMS ARE WORTH IN THE
CENTRE COUNTY REPUBLICAN MARKET.
—Just now, when rival Republican factions
in this county are pulling the coat tails
off Congressman Arnold and post master
general Gary, it might be of interest for all
of you to know what post offices in Centre
county are worth. According to the latest
“blue book” issued by the government the
various post masters have drawn the fol-
lowing for a year’s service : :
ARTONBDUIE crc iarivcerercseersesionsanissinceessss $322.62
Axeman....... 63.50
Bellefonte renew 2200.00
Benore......... 127.01
Blanchard .... . 207.04
Boalsburg..... -v : 279.65
Buffalo Run.. wee 139,206
Contre Hall.................. .. 659.39
Centre Hill. ..................... se 60,23
Centre Mill .: 67.90
Clarence.... . 245.82
Coburn...... esevenesene 265.05
PAIPbrook. cone seorsisierer co ibicitdin ih, 48.96
Farmers Mill 58.45
Fiedler...... . 52.95
Fillmore. 151.02
Pleming................ 0 . 357.08
Gatesburg................. . we 43.3
Guyer........ 63.01
Houserville re S04
HOWIIA. o.oo iisirsiiiiias dias ssimenie ... 084.94
Hublersburg. wei 1175.33
Julian........ . 142.09
Lemont......... we 320.60
Linden Hall... «. 101.40
Livonia ..............oin,.. «20.20
Loveville,................ ol 965.48
Madisonburg.... . 135.97
Martha Furnace.. WE)
Milesburg...... ni wo 517.60
Millheim.... . 527.02
Moshannon.......... 202.67
Mountain Eagle... . 157.88
Nittany ......c....... Je 132.52
Oak Hall Station............ .. 148.05
Penn Cave,........... 0... ~i. 20.85
Penn Hall... 121.06
| Philipsburg 2100.00
| PIRe GION rss coins are hit 101.65
Pine Grove Mills 253.63
Pleasant Gap...... 162.98
Poe Mills....... 58.16
Port Matilda.. 272.81
Potter's Mills.............. 162.87
Powelton.... 78.45
Rebersburg 330.89
Rock Spring. 73.38
Roland..... .. 191.76
Rompola.......... i 80.63
Sandy Ridge...... 119.84
Shingletown .. 57.38
Snow Shoe.. 364.80
Sober.......... 116.53
Spring Mills 481.52
State College . 1.500.00
Stormstown 116.53
Tusseyville. 95.11
Waddell....... .... i 89.03
Walker. 109.72
| Wingate... 55.11
| Wolf's Store, 58.44
Woodward .. anitsisvatereeriiios 180.77
ZION ie cist ennisinninnininsins hii 138.96
These figures were taken from the last
sent abroad by the University of Chicago, |
object is to secure documents and historical |
are prone to believe the work of some im- |
of new ground recently he uncovered a |
THE DEDICATION OF ST. JOSEPH’S
CHURCH AT RENOVO.—Rt. Rev. Thomas
McGovern, of Harrisburg, had charge of the
dedicatory services of the handsome new
Catholic church at Renovo, last Sunday.
The structure was begun in May, 1892, and
is of the Romanesque style of architecture
and is 60x125 feet. The auditorium is
forty feet in height and has a seating ca-
pacity of 800. The pews are heavy oak, and
are separated by three aisles. The altar
furnishings are of the finest. The hand-
some structure throughout reflects great
credit upon Rev. J. S. Gormley and his
! faithful and liberal flock.
| Rev. G. L. Benton was celebrant 3; Rey.
F. P. McCarthy, deacon ; Rev. J. B. Ar-
mour, sub deacon, and Rev. F. W. Dwyer,
master of ceremonies. In the afternoon at
4 o’clock two hundred children were con-
firmed by Bishop McGovern.
The visiting priests were : Rev. Daniel
I. McDermott, D. D., Philadelphia ; Rev.
E. McDermott, Rev. C. O’Byrn, Buffalo,
N.Y.; Rev. James Lavery, Driftwood ;
Rev. Father McAdams, Emporium ; Rev.
F. W. Dwyer, Brooklyn ; Rev. G. L. Ben-
| ton, Steelton ; Rev. Father Golden, Wil-
liamsport ; Rev. James Saas, Rev. F. B.
| McCarthy, Lock Haven ; Rev... B. Ar-
mour, Harrisburg.
John Pacini, of this place, did much of
| the fine interior wood work of the build-
ing.
SHOOTING A GAS WELL FOR THE
AMUSEMENT OF EDITORs.—Last week the
Pennsylvania state Editorial association
took its annual excursion and Bradford
and Niagara Falls were the objective points
| of the trip. The former being one of the
| great oil towns of the State the shooting of
| an oil well was thought would be about as
interesting a performance as could be got-
ten up for the visitors. A well that had
been finished, at Ormsby, several weeks
before, was held over and the Bradford Era
gives the following account of how it acted
when ‘‘shot.”’
‘“When Ormsby station was reached the
party was conducted toa well owned by
the Matson oil company, which had been
completed about two weeks ago, but was
allowed to stand without a “‘shot’’ in order
that the editorial visitors might have an
opportunity of witnessing the interesting
sight. The tin shells were filled with 180
quarts of nitro glycerine by Amos Brown, a
veteran shooter of the Rock glycerine com-
| pany, and lowered to the bottom of the
well. Miss Estelle Thomas, the accom-
plished daughter of Col. R. H. Thomas,
secretary of the association, was accorded
the honor of dropping the ‘‘go-devil.”” An
instant after the iron missile left the young
lady’s hand there was a muffled explosion,
telling that it had done its work. There
were 1,000 feat of oil in the hole and the
force of the shot was insufficient to start a
flow. Thiswas so unusual that superin-
tendent Caldwell was at loss for a time to
account for it, but finally concluded to ag
itate the oil. A bailer was lowered to the
bottom of the well and hoisted again with
the desired effect. A column of oil shot
upward, far above the top of the derrick.
As it fell to the ground in a golden spray,
exclamations of wonder and delight were
heard from the editors and their friends. A
number of the visitors had kodaks with
them and secured snap shots of the flow.’
ra
A HITCH IN THE ACETYLENE GAS
WoRKS.—Several months ago the WATCH-
MAN assured its readers that a great new
industry was about to spring up in Belle-
fonte, with the building of a'large plant for
the manufacture of apparatus and ingredi-
ents for the generating of acetylene gas.
In the same article acetylene gas was
fully explained aud an idea of the magni-
tude of the plant to be located here was left
to the reader, having given him a careful ac-
count of the uses to which the gas can be
put and its probable consumption. The
WATCHMAN published the story, exclu-
sively, and was in good faith when it stat-
ed that work would be begun at once. So
many inquiries have come to us of late,
wondering why more has not been done,
that we feel it necessary to make some ex-
planation.
At that time everything bade fair to a
speedy completion of the plans for the
plant. The money had been raised, the
| site located, arrangements made for the
purchase of necessary machinery and every-
| thing done but the organization of the com-
| pany. As late as last Friday Mr. Bucher,
the patentee, assured the gentlemen
who had put up the money for the enter-
prise, that everything was satisfactory.
The next day a meeting was called to or-
ganize the company and all were there, but
to the surprise of everyone Mr. Bucher re-
fused to enter into it and no sort of agree-
ment could be made with him. :
It was a great surprise to the others in-
terested and they could not realize what
had caused his sudden change unless, as it
was surmised, that the Whitney company
had tampered with him. At all events
Mr. Bucher’s patents are tied up with the
new organization and while it is probable
that he might, be dissuaded from his obsti-
| nate course the whole enterprise has been
temporarily dropped.
The full amount of the money had been
raised and the site for the buildings, in
Armor’s gap, selected and cleaned off.
This you can see for yourself and be con-
vinced that the story was not without good
foundation.
ti SA iii
Centre Hall.
| Children’s day was observed by the Sun-
day school of the Reformed church Sunday
| evening. The services were largely attended
| and the exercises were appropriate and well
rendered.
|
| John T. Lee is doing a good business at his
| carriage and wagon shops on East Church
| street. He is a first class mechanic and takes
| pains to do things just right. He gives car-
| riage painting and trimming considerable at-
| tention.
Not for many years has the corn crop been
so unpromising at this season of the year.
| Wheat, rye, oats, barley and grass are excel-
lent in all parts of the valley, which greatly-
John H. Stonebreaker and Annie Cart- | report and are all subject to change this | pleases the farmers, yet the failure of a corn
wright, both of Sandy Ridge.
| year.
| crop will be severely felt.